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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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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to…
— David Lloyd George
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The great workman of nature is time.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
— Unknown Author
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or…
— Unknown Author
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Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets…
— Samuel Gompers
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I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
— Plutarch
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear…
— Plato
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The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,…
— Plato
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