"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"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"The soul's joy lies in doing."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Percy Bysshe Shelley"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
Percy Bysshe Shelley