Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes - Page 2

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• The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

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  Community, Ruins, Mankind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

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  Deeds, Holy

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.16

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• The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

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• Deep truth is imageless.

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  Truth, Truth Is

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.393, Modern Library

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

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  Beauty, Poetry, World

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

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• Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

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  Heart, Hands, Bloody

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.300

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• In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Facts

  "Selected Essays on Atheism".

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• Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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  Gentleman, Devil, Sometimes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.239

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• Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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  Men, Would Be, Empires

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.610, Pearson Education

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

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  Action, Laurels, Faster

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• Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

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  Time, Fate, Destiny

  1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 2, sc.4, l.119-20.

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• The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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  Sorrow, Pleasure

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “A defense of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.43

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• Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

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  Wise, Men, Selfishness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.244

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• Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

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  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.143

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• 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.

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  Dust, Debt, Firsts

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.231

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

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  Memories, Men, History

  "A Defence of Poetry" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821.

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• The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

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  Scylla, Anarchy, Rich

  'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821, published 1840)

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• To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

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  Romantic, Good Night, Goodnight

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.229

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• There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

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  Vegetables, Water, Adoption

  Queen Mab Notes

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• A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

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  Atheist, Men, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic

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• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.

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  Blessed, Heart, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1972). “Selected Essays on Atheism”, Ayer Company Pub

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• When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

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  Lying, Clouds, Light

  'Lines: When the lamp'

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• When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

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  Joy, Heaven, Soul

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

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• A dream has power to poison sleep.

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  Dream, Sleep, Poison

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.192

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