The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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