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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

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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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
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Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.
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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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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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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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Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?
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Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
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So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.
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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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Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.
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Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
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The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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I Fall upon the thorns of life.
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The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
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