“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the
“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: imagination
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by
“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.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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We look before and after, And pine
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In a drama of the highest order
“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A man, to be greatly good, must
“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 pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: poetry
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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Government is an evil; it is only
“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.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion
“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The great instrument of moral good is
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: imagination
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