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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

«There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: luster
«A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds»
«Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Government | Keywords: decay, thoughtlessness
«O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?»
«The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.»
«Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.»
«Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: happiest, record
«Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken»
«All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth»
«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 for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.»

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