Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

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When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

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I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

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The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

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

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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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There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.

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Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

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And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

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Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

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The soul's joy lies in doing.

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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

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