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

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

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

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.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.