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I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#am #i #i am #people #quite

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right. ↗

— Mary Astell

#always #just #must #neither #right

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#assist #attainment #courted #difficulties #discouragements

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. ↗

— Mary Astell

#honour #ill #love #neither #nor

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves. ↗

— Mary Astell

#conduct #direct #fit #good #govern

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. ↗

— Mary Astell

#decline #down #folly #go #gradual

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#beings #bullet #comes #designed #evil

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. ↗

— Mary Astell

#concerns #great #insensible #know #matters

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. ↗

— Mary Astell

#good #grandeur #great #makes #sets

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #born #fit #happiness #happy