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Peace is in the grave.

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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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
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The wise want love and those who love want wisdom.
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.
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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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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.
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Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
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The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation
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Nature rejects the monarch, not the man the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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