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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes (332 quotes)
 | “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 Source/Notes: Essays: letters from abroad, translations and fragments, Volume 1, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1840, A Defence Of Poetry |
| “All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: "Essays: Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 2" (1840), p. 248, "Letters from Italy, Florence, Letter XXX to John Gisborne" |
| “Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3 (1839), p. 292, "Julian and Maddalo" |
| Source/Notes: The Earth, Act IV, l. 403. - Prometheus Unbound (1818-1819) |
| “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 Source/Notes: An address to the Irish people (1890) |
| Source/Notes: Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated) (2013 edition), Delphi Classics - ISBN: 9781909496071 |
| “In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated) (2013 edition), Delphi Classics - ISBN: 9781909496071 |
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| “Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.” ―Percy Bysshe Shelley Source/Notes: The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: including various additional pieces from ms. and other sources (1870 edition) |
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| Source/Notes: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1935 edition), Library of Alexandria - ISBN: 9781465533951 |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Born: August 4, 1792
Died: July 8, 1822 (aged 29)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Bio: Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife.
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