Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

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Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

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If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

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

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.

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

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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

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Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

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The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

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Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

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The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

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Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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Nought may endure but Mutability.

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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

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