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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
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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February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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No more let life divide what death can join together.
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Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
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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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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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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My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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He hath awakened from the dream of life.
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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
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Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into the Hell from which it first was furled.
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What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
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