Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

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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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Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

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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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I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

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

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Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

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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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The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

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In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

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...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

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I have drunken deep of joy.

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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

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