"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it…" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
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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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More Clings Quotes
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How…
— Arthur Symons
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
— Lucretius
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Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
— Honore de Balzac
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's…
— Sri Aurobindo
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for…
— Khalil Gibran
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
— Jeff Cooper
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Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris…
— Anne Monroe
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In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that…
— Jacquetta Hawkes
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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand…
— Lord Byron
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or…
— Stephen Batchelor
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