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... as belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief; (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry (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! (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
... Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
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 (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)
By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! (Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes)