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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes about humanity

English Author August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851

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I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such a friend ought to be -- do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair. But I -- I have lost everything, and cannot begin life anew. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved, and miserable in the separation. When it became noon, and the sun rose higher, I lay down on the grass, and was overpowered by a deep sleep. I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery, The sleep into which I now sunk refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the..."
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelingshave been worked up by a quick succession of events, the deadcalmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden..."
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I saw- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together... Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat..."
Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to..."
A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to..."
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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