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I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a 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.
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In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
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Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
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Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
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A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.
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When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
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We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
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A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
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In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.
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My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
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Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
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Man, I cried, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
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Evil thenceforth became my good.
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But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
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Her countenance was all expression her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.
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When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
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A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
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Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
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