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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
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Evil thenceforth became my good.
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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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The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.
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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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For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
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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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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?
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You are my creator, but I am your master Obey!
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
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. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
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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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Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).
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the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
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marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.
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Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him but I am solitary and detested.
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Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
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I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
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What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
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