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The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.
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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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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Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.
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Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.
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And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.
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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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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.
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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
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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 intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
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The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings.
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Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
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Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.
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For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
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