"Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life."
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150 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
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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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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…
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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…
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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends…
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