Famous Mary Shelley Quotations

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"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
by Mary Shelley
"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
by Mary Shelley
"Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not."
by Mary 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."
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
by Mary Shelley
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
by 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."
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
by Mary Shelley
"The beginning is always today."
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness."
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


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