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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ambition, Discovery, Tranquility
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.275, Courier Corporation

A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sweet, Philosophy, Ambition
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.34

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ambition, Infancy, Lofty
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.167

It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ambition, Reality, Views
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Father, Eye, Ambition
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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