Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowled...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

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

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his nati...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

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

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purp...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the sou...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

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

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monst...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the so...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

[Monster:] I am malicious because I am miserable. ... If any being felt emotions of benevolence towa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

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

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

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

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy yo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their min...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the sa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome vi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul ma...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

We are tomorrow's past.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was n...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

I am malicious because I am miserable
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ic...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Volume II: Chapter 5
The God sends down his angry plagues from high,
Famine and pestilenc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Volume II: Chapter V
What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that peo...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pas...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Live, and be happy, and make others so.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficie...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

There are some souls, bright and precious, which, like gold and silver, may be subdued by the fiery ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

From thence we proceeded to Oxford. As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembra...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which sho...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

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

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and assoc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of kn...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick su...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

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

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and rui...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience,...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did no...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all tru...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the exce...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roam...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they l...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadl...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of i...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfold...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their bro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morali...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast pr...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery c...
MARY SHELLEY

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

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

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY SHELLEY

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appen...
MARY SHELLEY

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent o...
MARY SHELLEY

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for ...
MARY SHELLEY

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY SHELLEY

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my mid...
MARY SHELLEY

Elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY SHELLEY

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their mind...
MARY SHELLEY

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
RACHEL SHELLEY

I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,...
RACHEL SHELLEY

I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
RACHEL SHELLEY

Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the...
RACHEL SHELLEY

We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
RACHEL SHELLEY

I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.
RACHEL SHELLEY

I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I...
RACHEL SHELLEY

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
RACHEL SHELLEY

I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I ...
SHELLEY HENNIG

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all th...
SHELLEY WINTERS

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
SHELLEY WINTERS

I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza...
SHELLEY HENNIG

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
PERCY SHELLEY

It was so cold I almost got married.
SHELLEY WINTERS

Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.
SHELLEY BOVEY

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
SHELLEY WINTERS

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
SHELLEY LONG

He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY

I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
SHELLEY HENNIG

I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or y...
SHELLEY DUVALL

People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I...
SHELLEY HENNIG

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
SHELLEY FABARES

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to d...
SHELLEY BERMAN

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create ...
SHELLEY DUVALL

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But...
SHELLEY DUVALL

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
SHELLEY DUVALL

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subvert...
KEVIN SHELLEY

Where do you go to get anorexia?
SHELLEY WINTERS

Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
BRUCE SHELLEY

a fraternity house. ... He wants you to have a good time whether you're working or not.
BRUCE SHELLEY

My boss thinks it's the best entertainment product Microsoft's ever made,
BRUCE SHELLEY

They just want to have the action.
BRUCE SHELLEY

We do listen to the feedback quite a bit, ... We have at least one or two full-time people who are m...
BRUCE SHELLEY

I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo...
BRUCE SHELLEY

We went as high as we could. We were actually putting graphic effects in here you couldn't see on an...
BRUCE SHELLEY

The programming team set out to make the best-looking PC game ever.
BRUCE SHELLEY

We haven't announced anything and we don't really have anything in development, but we're experiment...
BRUCE SHELLEY

We want to do new kinds of games and do new and different things. We've been doing the same game for...
BRUCE SHELLEY

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when w...
SHELLEY BERKLEY

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
SHELLEY DUVALL

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

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

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