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> [Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/supremely-frightful-would-be-the-effect-of-any-human-endeavor-to-mock/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

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## More by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

> [When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/when-i-step-into-the-batters-box-the-fans-the-noise-the-cheers-they/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [“...the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/the-past-was-blotted-from-my-memory-the-present-was-tranquil-and-the/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/a-lofty-sense-of-independence-is-in-man-the-best-privilege-of-his/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/standing-armies-can-never-consist-of-resolute-robust-men-they-may-be/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/of-what-a-strange-nature-is-knowledge-it-clings-to-the-mind-when-it/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/she-was-no-longer-that-happy-creature-who-in-earlier-youth-wandered/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/he-is-dead-who-called-me-into-being-and-when-i-shall-be-no-more-the/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/after-days-and-nights-of-incredible-labor-and-fatigue-i-succeeded-in/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/all-judges-had-rather-that-ten-innocent-should-suffer-than-that-one/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/i-considered-the-being-whom-i-had-cast-among-mankind-and-endowed-with/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [“But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/but-liberty-had-been-a-useless-gift-to-me-had-i-not-as-i-awakened-to/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/solitude-becomes-a-sort-of-tangible-enemy-the-more-dangerous-because/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [“As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/as-i-read-however-i-applied-much-personally-to-my-own-feelings-and/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/what-is-there-in-our-nature-that-is-for-ever-urging-us-on-towards/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

> [His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/his-conversation-was-marked-by-its-happy-abundance/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

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