Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

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

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

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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

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How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

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He hath awakened from the dream of life.

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A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

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

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

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Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?

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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

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Peace is in the grave.

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There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

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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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The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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Jealousy's eyes are green.

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What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

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If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!

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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

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