World Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

8 World quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s eight reflections condense her thoughts on the world into powerful, succinct statements. Though the list is modest, each line carries the weight of her literary insight.

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When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is…

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“...take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.”

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We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love…

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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.

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Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

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There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits…

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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to…

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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone...…

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When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a…

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“...the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy.”

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A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

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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…

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“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the…

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She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy…

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He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

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After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself…

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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

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“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as…

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“But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.”

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Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

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“As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely…

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“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and,…

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His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

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