Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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