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Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  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. There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  17. The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  18. I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  19. What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  20. 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
  21. Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  22. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  23. The peace in the homes is the peace in the towns.The peace in the towns is the peace in the nation.The peace in the nation is the peace in the world. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  24. Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace! – Debasish Mridha
  25. Peace can be fragile and peace can be ugly and peace can be wrong. Peace built on lies is no peace at all. – Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
  26. Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. – Margaret Mead
  27. The question shouldn’t be, ‘Are we guilty about our Colonial past?’ it should be, ‘Why aren’t we more guilty about our corporate present? – Sara Sheridan
  28. It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
  29. It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  30. Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  31. Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  32. I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  33. The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  34. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world! – Mary Wollstonecraft
  35. Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions. – Mary Wollstonecraft
  36. How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? – Mary Wollstonecraft
  37. Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. – Ignazio Silone
  38. As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of the world. – Anna Kavan
  39. A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn’t got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all. – LouisFerdinand Cline
  40. You are born into genius but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity ? – Robin S Sharma

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