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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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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will…
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed…
— John Quincy Adams
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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…
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I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why…
— James D'arcy
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent…
— Susan Sontag
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Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all…
— Oliver Sacks
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,…
— Oscar Wilde
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The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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