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Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes

English Poet August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the..."
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "No more alone through the world's wilderness,Although I trod..."
No more alone through the world's wilderness,Although I trod the paths of high intent,I journeyed now: no more companionless Percy Bysshe Shelley
And on the pedestal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decay. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away. 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. Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! Percy Bysshe Shelley
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The everlasting universe of things. Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom--Now lending splendour, where from secret springs. The source of human thought its tribute brings. Percy Bysshe Shelley
By solemn vision and bright silver dream. His infancy was nurtured. Every sight. And sound from the vast earth and ambient air. Sent to his heart its choicest impulses. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine..."
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. Percy Bysshe Shelley
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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