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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes

English Author August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797? 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Source: Wikipedia Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather..."
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"
Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of..."
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. - Victor Frankenstein. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
these are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death... with the induction of the joy of a child feels when embarks a little boat. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. 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
After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
... the master of this person of an excellent disposition. And is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness, and the mildness of his disipline... added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me desirious to engage him. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive..."
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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