Humans Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 20 verses lift the human experience into a realm of soaring idealism and restless yearning. His lyrical voice invites you to feel the pulse of hope and the ache of longing that define us.

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The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

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I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

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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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A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,…

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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root…

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The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,…

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I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by…

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By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give…

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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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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer…

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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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The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its…

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Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears!…

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Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art…

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Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the…

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things…

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If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression…

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In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were…

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