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Letter "P" » Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
«The soul's joy lies in doing.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
«To hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates.»
«Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Hell
| Keywords:
City of London, most populous, populous, smoky
«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.»
«Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art»
«Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.»
«The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.»
«Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.»
«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.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
constancy, defects, endures, indiscreet, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, tamely
«What 'twas weak to do 'Tis weaker to lament, once being done»
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