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• Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

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  Cities, Heaven, London

  'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

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• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

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  Friends, Real, Ignorance

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• His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

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  Knives, Losing, Lost

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 240 (on Thomas Love Peacock)

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• What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

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  Ignorance, Thinking, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.177

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• Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.

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  Men, Belief, Involuntary

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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• January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

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  Time, Grief, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.500, Delphi Classics

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• I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

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  Life, Rivers, Fields

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.40, Pearson Education

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• Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

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  Honor, Honour

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.195, JHU Press

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• Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

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  Perfection

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock (1944). “Shelley at Oxford”

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• I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

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  Self, Evil, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.350, JHU Press

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• Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

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  Love, Stars, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

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  Atheist, Creating, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1860). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.119

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• I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

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  Snow, Frost, Form

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

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  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

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  Love, Powerful, Community

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

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• Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

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  Spirit, Classic, Hail

  "To a Skylark" l. 1 (1819)

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• 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.

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  Truth, Stupid, May

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• All love is sweet
  Given or returned. Common as light is love,
  And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

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  Love, Life, Sweet

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.114

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• I have made my bed
  In charnels and on coffins, where black death
  Keeps record of the trophies won

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  Black, Records, Trophies

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1816). “Alastor; or, The spirit of solitude: and other poems. Facs. repr”, p.3

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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  Peace, War, Games

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

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  Autumn, Wind, Unseen

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 1

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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  Luxury, Aristocracy, Ruins

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

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  Spring, Winter, Wind

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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

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  Nature, Punishment, Faults

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• It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

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  Father, Fall, Atheism

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

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