HUMANITY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself.
2 It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.
3 Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.
4 A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.
5 My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings.
6 I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.
7 I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.
8 Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel.
9 One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
10 I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body.
11 A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
12 He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.
13 I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.
14 I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.
15 The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.
16 The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.
17 A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life.
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