Mary Shelley Short Quotes

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His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

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Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

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Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

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I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.

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"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

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I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of causation...

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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

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From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

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Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

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My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

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Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

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To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

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Marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

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I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

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He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

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I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected...

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A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

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Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

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It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being

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I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

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None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
On her son's education

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Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

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When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

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I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.

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