Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

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It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?

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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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

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For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

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Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

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Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

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Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

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Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

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Necessity, thou mother of the world!

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It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

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Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

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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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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

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