Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

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The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

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Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

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It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

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Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

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My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.

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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

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For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

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Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

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So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

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The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

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What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

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For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

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Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect resembles more or less its original in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.

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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

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