What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEYWith how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
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To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
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I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
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A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.
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From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
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I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.
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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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Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
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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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But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
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The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
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Man,” I cried, “how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
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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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Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
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Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
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But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
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