Mary Shelley Quotes
29 Mary Shelley quotes:
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye"
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"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be--a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
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"At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice"
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"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
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"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."
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"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks"
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"We are tomorrow's past."
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"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."
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"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
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"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
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"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
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Elegance Quotes
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"It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason"
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"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy."
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"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with"
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
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"Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not."
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos"
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"The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized."
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"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."
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"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
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