"The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while,……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places."
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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 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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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never…
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless…
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice…
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most…
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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your…
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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It…
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I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of…
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