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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: August 4, 1792
Died: July 8, 1822

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
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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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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.
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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