Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

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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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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

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Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

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The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

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What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

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It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

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He hath awakened from the dream of life.

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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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Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

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