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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

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

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

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

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

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.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

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.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

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

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

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

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

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

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

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.