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We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Arrangements Authority Details Difficulty Easily He High Holding Home Husband Ideas Methodical Much Outset Pair Precise Strongly Submission Theory Thinking Very Were Wife

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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Been Ever Mixture Paid Strength Weakness

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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

~Annie Besant

Topics: Also Ambitious Attempts Black Character Composition Different First Letter Lines Lives Made More Much Saints Serious Short Short Stories Some Stories Took Two Type Up Very Were Work Writing Wrote

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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Being Doubt Drive Earthquake Foundations Intellectual Mind Moral Necessity Nothing Religious Shock Shook Soul Though Very

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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Atheism Creed Desires Fashions Foul Life Never Outcome Speak Take Think Tried Vicious Who

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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Actions Adaptation Basis Bless Endeavour General Happiness Lives Mankind May Morality Our Our Lives Promotion Rule Serve True Utility Welfare

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Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

~Annie Besant

Topics: All Religions Being Blossoms Code Embodiment Fragrant Gardens Gathering Highest Itself Moral Morality Morals Most Presents Religions Students Teachings

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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Circle Deaths Evolving He Heavenly Man Mental Physical Physical World Three Which World Worlds

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Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Activity Allied Among Body Due Educated Educated People Evolution Experiences Frequency Many Merely People Physical Reaction Result Unseen

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After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

~Annie Besant

Topics: After Better Body Control Death Earth Learn Life Live More Now Our Some Time Us Use Used Wisely World

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 1st, 1847

Died: September 20th, 1933

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