I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIf a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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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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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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