Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

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Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

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I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls; The oracular thunder penetrating shook The listening soul in my suspended blood.

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The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

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Poet's food is love and fame.

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A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

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a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

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Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

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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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