Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

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I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God.'

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Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

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The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

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Within my heart is the lamp of love, And that is day!

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All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

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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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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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

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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

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Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!

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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.

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

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

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Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

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Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

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And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

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