Quotes from authors passed in 1731
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
Mary Astell
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
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.'
Mary Astell
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.
Mary Astell

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