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Great Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
- Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and…
- The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in…
- It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in…
- If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
- I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,…
- As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in…
- The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
- To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;…
- Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us…
- The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists…
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