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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."

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"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

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"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."

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"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

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"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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"Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted."

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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

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"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."

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"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."

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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

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"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."

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"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

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"Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."

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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."

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"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."

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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

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"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."

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"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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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

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"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

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"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

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"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

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"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."

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"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."

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"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

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"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."

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"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

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"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."

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"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."

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