Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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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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Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

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I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

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What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.

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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

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It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

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The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

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Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

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The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

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