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Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.
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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No more let life divide what death can join together.
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As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.
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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
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A dream has power to poison sleep.
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Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance it has injured me.
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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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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.
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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively he must put himself in the place of another and of many others the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings.
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This, and no other, is justice: to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.
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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
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