Tag: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley