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Own Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if…
- If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless
- 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…
- A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
- At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary…
- Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.
- Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.
- The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose...
- ...’tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon....
- It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
- "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of…
- What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.
- GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far…
- A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
- A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the…
- 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;…
- 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…
- I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I…
- Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make…
- 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;…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov