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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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