War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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