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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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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Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
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By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
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In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.
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The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.
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Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.
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I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
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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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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
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