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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Born: August 4, 1792

Died: July 8, 1822

Nationality: English

Occupation: Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist

Biography: 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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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

Source/Notes: Essays: letters from abroad, translations and fragments, Volume 1, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1840, A Defence Of Poetry

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“All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”

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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"

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“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.”

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Source/Notes: The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3 (1839), p. 292, "Julian and Maddalo"

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“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source/Notes: The Earth, Act IV, l. 403. - Prometheus Unbound (1818-1819)

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“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)

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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”

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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source/Notes: Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated) (2013 edition), Delphi Classics - ISBN: 9781909496071

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“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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“Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.”

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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.”

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Source/Notes: The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: including various additional pieces from ms. and other sources (1870 edition)

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“Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.”

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“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source/Notes: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1935 edition), Library of Alexandria - ISBN: 9781465533951

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“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”

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“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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