Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes About Labour

Quotes about: Labour

• There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Perseverance, Men, Sea

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

• The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Halloween, Moon, Midnight

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

• The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Genius, Failing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.75, DOSER Reads

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