Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to support my spirits.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleyif I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWhen happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleyis it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyNothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyHad I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySeek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: happiness ambition tranquility frankenstein
We cannot without depraving our minds endeavour to please a lover or husband but in proportion as he pleases us.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPolluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyYou 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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