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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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