Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

English - Poet | August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

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ReligionSelfishness

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

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MusicMemoryDieSoftVoices

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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The soul's joy lies in doing.

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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

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