Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

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Deep truth is imageless.

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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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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Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

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Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

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God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

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The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

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I have drunken deep of joy.

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I love all waste and solitary places.

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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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Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

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

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But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

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Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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

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Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings.

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