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All Quotes by author - Percy Bysshe Shelley

" All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. "

" 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. "

" A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. "

" Familiar acts are beautiful through love. "

" Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. "

" First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. "

" 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. "

" History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. "

" If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? "

" I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. "

" In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. "

" Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. "

" 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. "

" Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. "

" 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. "

" Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. "

" Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. "

" Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. "

" Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. "

" Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. "

" Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. "

" O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? "

" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "

" Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. "

" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "

" Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. "

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "

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