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Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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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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He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
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Even the eternal skies weep, I thought is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
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Man, I cried, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
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If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.
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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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Sorrow only increased with knowledge.
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Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
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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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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
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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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I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
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What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
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But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.
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Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.
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