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The Span Of Life Is Too Short To Be Trifled Away In Unconcerning And Unprofitable Matters.

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.

Whilst Our Hearts Are Violently Set Upon Any Thing, There Is No Convincing Us That We Shall Ever Be Of Another Mind.

Women Are From Their Very Infancy Debarred Those Advantages With The Want Of Which They Are Aftewards Reproached, And Nursed Up In Those Vices Which Will Hereafter Be Upbraided To Them. So Partial Are Men As To Expect Bricks When They Afford No Straw.

The Soul Debases Her Self, When She Sets Her Affections On Any Thing But Her Creator.