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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes about nature

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
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
The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me..."
When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
...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. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To bestow on your fellow men is a Godlike attribute--So indeed it is and as such not one fit for mortality;--the giver, like Adam and Prometheus, must pay the penalty of rising above his nature by being the martyr of his own excellence. 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
How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal..."
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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