“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift–”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, The lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.”
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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“Man’s yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sorrow
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“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Revenge
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“Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.”
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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Nature
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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.”
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“There is no real wealth but the labor of man.”
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“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hope
