"It is a farce to call any being……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason."

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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150 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes…
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations,…
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye…
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can…
At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends…

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