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May Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- ...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.
- The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep…
- Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
- I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You…
- I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and…
- Nought may endure but Mutability.
- Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities…
- Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can…
- When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all…
- Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which…
- What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth…
- We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,…
- Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!
- The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is…
- a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
- January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps --…
- Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
- Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
- Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong