Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quotations
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“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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