"I ought to be thy Adam, but I…" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel..."
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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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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's…
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just…
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