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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age: 29 †
Born: 1792
Born: August 4
Died: 1822
Died: July 8
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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Nature rejects the monarch, not the man the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
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Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
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Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!
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Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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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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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love and those who love want wisdom.
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Among true and real friends, all is common and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
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