Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

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Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

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The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

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The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.

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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

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O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

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God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

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Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

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The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

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Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

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I have drunken deep of joy.

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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

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