Psychology Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

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O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

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As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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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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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean,…

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Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most…

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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, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings.

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Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon…

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Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale…

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“All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.' But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain or withdraws…

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It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is…

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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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The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this…

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“Whether that lady's gentle mind, No longer with the form combined Which scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it left delight, I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem, And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if…

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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, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings.

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless…

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A dream has power to poison sleep.

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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed !”

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“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

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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 thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade…

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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The…

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