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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

«Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Obedience | Keywords: cowardly, egotism, pitiful
«The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.»
«Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again / I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.»
«History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: History | Keywords: cyclic, poem
«A dream has power to poison sleep.»
«Familiar acts are beautiful through love.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: familiar
«There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side»
«Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.»
«Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.»
«They learn in suffering what they teach in song»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | Keywords: Teach In

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