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The world is weary of the pas...

The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

If all the thought which had ...

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

The conceptions which any nat...

The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Dar'st thou amid the varied m...

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

O world! O life! O time! On w...

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

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It is thus that the generalit...

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.

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Poetry is not like reasoning,...

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Nature rejects the monarch, n...

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

This is Heaven, when pain and...

This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

My neighbour, or my servant, ...

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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Poetry strengthens that facul...

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Oh, that the wise from their ...

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Not the swart Pariah in some ...

Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

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And priests dare babble of a ...

And priests dare babble of a God of peace,
Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood,
Murdering the while, uprooting every germ
Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all,
Making the earth a slaughter - house!

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Worse than despair,
Worse th...

Worse than despair,
Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves...

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

In the golden lightning Of th...

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Design must be proved before ...

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Whatever strengthens and puri...

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

Nothing of him that doth fade...

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Percy Bysshe Shelley 532 quotes

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