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Letter "P" » Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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«Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason»
«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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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aristocracy, barbarism, chivalry, disgusting, forerunner, forerunners, odious, republicanism, ruins, scarcely
«Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again / I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blast, breaking point, crush, demon, encourage, gratify, hurl, insatiable, native, oath, swear, The Antichrist, The Demon
«History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.»
«A dream has power to poison sleep.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«Familiar acts are beautiful through love.»
«There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.»
«Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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bankrupt, bankrupts, critic, exceptions, malignant, reviewer, reviewers, taker, takers, thief, unsuccessful
«They learn in suffering what they teach in song»
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