"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"
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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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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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There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a…
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
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