Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Percy Bysshe Shelley time inspirational life Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God. Percy Bysshe Shelley religious sleep children January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers. Percy Bysshe Shelley grief flower time Joy, once lost, is pain Percy Bysshe Shelley chaos pain joy When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. Percy Bysshe Shelley light clouds lying Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. Percy Bysshe Shelley generosity money business We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability! Percy Bysshe Shelley dream sleep men First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. Percy Bysshe Shelley debt dust firsts I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear. Percy Bysshe Shelley life lying children O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest. Percy Bysshe Shelley air spring memories The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors. Percy Bysshe Shelley jealous keys truth Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley punishment faults nature One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody. Percy Bysshe Shelley hungry woods dark Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. Percy Bysshe Shelley sage calm meditation Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. Percy Bysshe Shelley laurels faster action The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley instruments moral imagination And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley despair kings names There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley wealth real men I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. Percy Bysshe Shelley frost form snow If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? Percy Bysshe Shelley prayer wise doubt
