Quotes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - somelinesforyou

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ The choice is with us; let us will it, and our habitation becomes a paradise. For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Virtue can only flourish among equals. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ It was the part of a woman so to refine and educate her mind, as to be the cause of good alone to him whose fate depended on her smile. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Virtue can only flourish among equals. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ”

- 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

“ Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ The young are always in extremes. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Virtue can only flourish among equals. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Virtue can only flourish among equals. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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