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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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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
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Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.
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Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.
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O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
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The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.
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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
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[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.
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Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.
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Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
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The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.
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I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
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