Percy Bysshe Shelley Short Quotes

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Of Fate, and Chance, and God, and Chaos old.

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Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.

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We must prove design before we can infer a designer.

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How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!

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The more we study, we the more discover
Our ignorance.

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A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.

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Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life.

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His fine wit
Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
Of Thomas Love peacock

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Monarchy is only the string that ties the robber's bundle.

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The quick Dreams,
The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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Underneath Day's azure eyes
Ocean's nursling, Venice lies.

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There is no sport in hate when all the rage
Is on one side.

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A widow bird sat mourning for her love
Upon a wintry bough.

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Men of England, wherefore plow For the lords who lay ye low?

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… why God made irreconcilable
Good and the means of good.

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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.

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For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

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The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

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Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

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Hell is a city much like London —
A populous and smoky city.

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Less oft is peace in Shelley's mind,
Than calm in waters, seen.

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

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

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Chameleons feed on light and air:
Poets' food is love and fame.

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Worse than despair,
Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

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