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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap;
  Find wealth--let no imposter heap;
  Weave robes--let not the idle wear;
  Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Tyrants, Rights, Arms

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.247

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• And priests dare babble of a God of peace,
  Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood,
  Murdering the while, uprooting every germ
  Of truth, exterminating, spoiling all,
  Making the earth a slaughter - house!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blood, Hands, House

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

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• The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

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  Death, Ends, Babe

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.711, Pearson Education

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• In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

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  Infancy Is, Literature, Poet

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.28

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• 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

  Passion, Mind, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.732, Pearson Education

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• For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

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  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.391

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• Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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  Song, Learning, Men

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 544

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• There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Fall, Autumn, Sky

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• 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stupid, Race, Despair

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.946, Delphi Classics

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• But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
  Are children of one mother, even Love.

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  Mother, Hope, Children

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.151

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• Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Country, Blow, Blood

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.248

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• Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

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  Wisdom, Found, Mankind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.626, JHU Press

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• How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Brother, Sleep

  'The Daemon of the World' part 1, l. 1 (a revision of the opening lines of 'Queen Mab')

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• The soul's joy lies in doing.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

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  Beautiful, Kings, Revenge

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 638

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• God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

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  Ignorance, Logic, Infinite

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.85, Wordsworth Editions

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• The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

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• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

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  Friends, Real, Ignorance

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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.

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  Thinking, Reason, Obedience

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

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  Husband, Law, Long

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Worse than despair,
  Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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  Hope, Despair, Bitterness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.1114, JHU Press

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• How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

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  Beautiful, Sunset, Land

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.666, Pearson Education

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• [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

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  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

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  Running, Clouds, Race

  1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.

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