Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

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Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

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The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

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Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

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This, and no other, is justice: to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.

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O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

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The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

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Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect resembles more or less its original in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.

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A dream has power to poison sleep.

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How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

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... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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

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Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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