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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.
2 Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.
3 But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould, and her courage rose to support her in her adversity.
4 At other times he repeated my favourite poems, or drew me out into arguments, which he supported with great ingenuity.
5 But this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only to plunge me lower in the dust.
6 The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.
7 She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
8 As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.
9 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.
10 His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
11 Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very little during the winter, when its masters could scarcely procure food to support it.
12 As the images that floated before me became more distinct, I grew feverish; a darkness pressed around me; no one was near me who soothed me with the gentle voice of love; no dear hand supported me.
13 I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support.
14 This sentiment of the worth of my nature supported me when others would have been oppressed, for I deemed it criminal to throw away in useless grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures.
15 The first part of this deposition did not in the least interest me, but when the mark of the fingers was mentioned I remembered the murder of my brother and felt myself extremely agitated; my limbs trembled, and a mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support.
16 My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.