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History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | History and Historians Quotes
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Imagination Quotes
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poets and Poetry Quotes
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Self-Control Quotes
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Past Quotes
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Difficult Days Quotes
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Hope Quotes
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Creation Quotes
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Criticism Quotes
First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Death Quotes
Jealousy's eyes are green.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jealousy Quotes
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Joy Quotes
See! the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: - What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Kiss Quotes
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Kiss Quotes
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lark Quotes
January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and rave, And April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Months Quotes
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Moon Quotes
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Obscurity Quotes
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry Quotes
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Song Quotes
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Winter Quotes
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Work Quotes


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