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"27 Mary Shelley Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 August 1797. Died: 1 February 1851 | Novelist |

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

Inspire Love Cause Fear
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The beginning is always today.

Beginning Today
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He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall.

Feel Worth Greatness Fall
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Perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who have it, appear angelic

Perfect Happiness Attributes Angels
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Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

Crimes Remorse Rest Death
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What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Stop Determined Heart Man
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My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Education Neglected Passionately Reading
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The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.

World Seceret Desired Divine
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Painful Mind Great Change
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Man Chooses Evil Happiness
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Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

Life Anguish Dear Defend
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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Solitude Consolation
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Contributes Mind Purpose
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Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Learn Misery Increase Own
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Live, and be happy, and make others so.

Live Happy
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The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Accidents Life Feelings Human nature
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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Beware Fearless Powerful
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The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Companions Childhood Power Mind
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Dreams Refuge Pleasure Free
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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.

Dangerous Knowledge World Nature
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Invention Created Void Chaos
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I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Benevolent Misery Friend Happy
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Understand Men Good Hate
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Wish Women Power Men
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Life Obstinate Clings Hated
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Elegance Inferior Virtue
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But knowledge isn't meant to be held as a weapon in a battle to defy our fates and manipulate life over death.

Knowledge Weapon Life Death
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Mary Shelley Quotes & Sayings