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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
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Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.
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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.
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... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
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Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!
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Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
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I have drunken deep of joy.
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O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.
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(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
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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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Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.
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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
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