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Letter "P" » Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
«In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet»
«Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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blasphemy, devours, in secret, obscenity, secret societies, secret society
«If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another s; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton»
«The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it»
«One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it»
«Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.»
«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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.»
«A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.»
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