Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

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The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

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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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Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

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At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

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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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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

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It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

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Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine In which its vermeil splendours shine.

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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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And on the pedestal these words appear:  'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:  Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'  Nothing beside remains. Round the decay  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare  The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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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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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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The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

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The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

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Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

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The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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