Gold Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

9 Gold quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s nine concise lines about gold channel his romantic spirit. They paint a vivid, lyrical picture of the metal’s allure in a compact package.

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Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high…

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Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

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There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be…

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True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that…

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world…

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before…

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True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that…

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