Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

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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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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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You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.

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Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

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Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

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It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?

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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

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

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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

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Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

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The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

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All love is sweet, given or received.

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Necessity, thou mother of the world!

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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