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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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The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.
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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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The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.
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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
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Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present the words which express what they understand not the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.
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A dream has power to poison sleep.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.
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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
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The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
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No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer no one comfort would be added to the human race.
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A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.
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Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow
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