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Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

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

'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.

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.

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

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

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

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.'

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.