Evil Principle Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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…
• My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure…
• It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
• You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not…
• Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
• Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
• Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form…
• I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
• My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the…
• The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
• The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and…
• 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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