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Percy Bysshe Shelley Inspirational Quotes (239)

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O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance it has injured me.
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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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I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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A dream has power to poison sleep.
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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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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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.
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Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.
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I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You with the unpaid bill, Despair, You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, I will pay you in the grave, Death will listen to your stave.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.
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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.
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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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The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
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Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
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His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
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Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
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Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.
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