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 SHELLEYSometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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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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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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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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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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