Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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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The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

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The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

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The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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

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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

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The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

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Jealousy's eyes are green.

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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

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Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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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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Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

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A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

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