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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : " Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne : " The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Washington Irving : " Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Washington Irving : " Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Washington Irving : " Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Kenneth Hildebrand : " Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Ralph Waldo Emerson : " I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Walter Lippmann : " Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Thomas Carlyle : " The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Steve Allen : " The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually to close it on something solid. But one should never close either mind or mouth until the general circumstances of the moment make it reasonable to do so. " # Purpose # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Love

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves." # Men and Women # Power # Women

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." # Purpose

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil." # Politicians and Politics

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone." # Friends and Friendship # Love # Happiness

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing. Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse. I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness. He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation. They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form? She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species. Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had 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." # Age and Aging # Love # Marriage

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated." # Life and Living # Hatred # Husbands

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me..." # Solitude # Love # Writers and Writing

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." # Enthusiasm # Love # Purpose

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me. I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood. The words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few! And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around 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? I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!" # Bereavement # Friends and Friendship # Love

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: " Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives." # Friends and Friendship # Integrity # Action

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