"Nothing is so painful to the human mind……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

— 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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More Change Quotes

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Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from… — Billie Joe Armstrong
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about… — Karen Armstrong
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in… — David Attenborough
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our… — David Attenborough
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius

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