Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

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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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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

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I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave.

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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

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Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won

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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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

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Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.

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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

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If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

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I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

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