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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 It was a strong effort of the spirit of good, but it was ineffectual.
2 My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence.
3 From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger.
4 The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve.
5 Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.
6 I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit.
7 Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.
8 Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
9 While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes.
10 She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
11 He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
12 She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, rought through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.
13 I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
14 Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
15 I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.
16 It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
17 With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.
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