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World Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
- Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
- He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him…
- Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
- Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain…
- 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…
- Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in…
- Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
- Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
- Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
- There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be one grain of…
- Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are…
- 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…
- But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial…
- The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
- Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
- Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
- Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet…
- Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
- 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 mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from…
- In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common;…
- Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach