"I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created."
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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150 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…
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
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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…
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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,…
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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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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind…
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and…
— David Brainerd
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the…
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
— Seneca the Younger
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of…
— Hippolyte Taine
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly…
— Anatole France
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Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for…
— Johann Arndt
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from…
— William Blake
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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows…
— Saint Augustine
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It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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