Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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