Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

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Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

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Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

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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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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

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The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. 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 pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.

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The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

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Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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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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... 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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Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

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