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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has 152 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men…
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure…
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not…
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Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form…
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the…
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and…
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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty
— William Shakespeare
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
— Woodrow Wilson
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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
— Unknown Author
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It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and…
— William Shakespeare
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There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part,…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
— Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
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When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you…
— Muhammad
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