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There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  1. The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  2. My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  3. the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  4. My life, as it passes thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep! – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  5. Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  6. For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  7. She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  8. So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  9. Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  10. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  11. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  12. Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded-”a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  13. I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  14. This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  15. Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it–thus! – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  16. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  17. I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  18. What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  19. Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  20. Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  21. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  22. Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  23. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  24. It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  25. Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  26. Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  27. I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  28. The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  29. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world! – Mary Wollstonecraft
  30. Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  31. How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? – Mary Wollstonecraft
  32. Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  33. Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys’ game. – William Gibson
  34. There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
  35. Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
  36. Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  37. Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them. – TS Eliot
  38. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
  39. The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people. – Father Brown
  40. I can’t understand God and I can’t understand myself, so there’s no chance in hell that I’m going to understand you! – Anthony T Hincks

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