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 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
 Government

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.

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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 Quotes

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight

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 Joy
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

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

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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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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 Quotes

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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 Beauty English Poet
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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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 Quotes

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.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

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