Occupation: Writer Birth: 1623 Death: December 15, 1673
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other..
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit..
One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion..
For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security..
If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree.
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gav….
who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?.
Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache..
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses..
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writ….
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can ….
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity..
The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms..
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of h….
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she c….
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime..
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel disposition….
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of se….
Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other..
And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable….
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, b….