Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

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Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

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By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

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No more let life divide what death can join together.

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The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.

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This, and no other, is justice: to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.

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If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

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Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

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Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

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