All Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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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.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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