| 48 Famous Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason”
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“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”
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“For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.”
Suffering Quotes Source: The Cenci (act III, sc. 1)
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“Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
Our chastisement or recompense.”
Suffering Quotes Source: Julian and Maddalo (l. 494)
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“Ay, many flowering islands lie
In the waters of wide Agony.”
Islands Quotes Source: Lines written among the Euganean Hills (l. 66)
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“No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.”
Despair Quotes Source: Prometheus Unbound (act I, l. 24)
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“. . . then black despair
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone.”
Despair Quotes Source: Revolt of Islam--Dedication (st. 6)
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“'Twas his ambition, generous and great
A life to life's great end to consecrate.”
Washington, george Quotes Source: Washington
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“How many a rustic Milton has passed by,
Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,
In unremitting drudgery and care!
How many a vulgar Cato has compelled
His energies, no longer tameless then,
To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!”
Work Quotes Source: Queen Mad (pt. V, st. 9)
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“And many an ante-natal tomb
When butterflies dream of the life to come.”
Butterflies Quotes Source: Sensitive Plant
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“Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew,
Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue
Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.”
Glowworms Quotes Source: To a Skylark
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“The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Song--To Men of England
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“Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief.”
Echo Quotes Source: Adonais (st. 15)
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“Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power
Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;
Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich, the miserable proud,
The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,
And with blind feelings reverence the power
That grinds them to the dust of misery.
But in the temple of their hireling hearts
Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn
All earthly things but virtue.”
Gold Quotes Source: Queen Mab (pt. V, st. 4)
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“The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.”
Desire Quotes Source: To---- One Word is too Often Profaned.
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“Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Hellas--Mahmud to Hassan (l. 195)
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“Peter was dull; he was at first
Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!
Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--
Still with his dulness was he cursed--
Dull--beyond all conception--dull.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Peter Bell the Third (pt. VII, XI)
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“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to
open it and remove all doubt.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Peter Bell the Third (pt. VII, XI)
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“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Peter Bell the Third (pt. VII, XI)
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“Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.”
Songs Quotes Source: To Wordsworth (l. 12)
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“O, white innocence,
That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
Thine awful and serenest countenance
From those who know thee not!”
Innocence Quotes Source: The Cenci (act V, sc. 3, l. 24)
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“There is a snake in thy smile, my dear,
And bitter poison within thy tear.”
Smiles Quotes Source: Beatrice Cenci
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“Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling
With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed
Incessantly.”
Eagles Quotes Source: Revolt of Islam (canto I, st. 10)
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“Better than all measures
Of delightful sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skilled to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!”
Larks Quotes Source: To a Skylark (st. 20)
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“Hail to thee blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.”
Larks Quotes Source: To a Skylark (st. 20)
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