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 SHELLEYHonour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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