Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Elegance is inferior to virtue. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#inferior #virtue

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#bounds #break #dark #death #first

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people! ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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