Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
… obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches.
What 'twas weak to do 'Tis weaker to lament, once being done.
O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
The unquiet republic of the maze Of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
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.
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