Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

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The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

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Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

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I love tranquil solitude.

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

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What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!

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Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

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Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

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O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

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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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My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!

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Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

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How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

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

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We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

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

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