The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves! Percy Bysshe Shelley men heaven religion To hope till hope creates Percy Bysshe Shelley unbound wrecks hope Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. Percy Bysshe Shelley age kindness funny Love, from its awful throne of patient power Percy Bysshe Shelley wise spring life For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change. Percy Bysshe Shelley delight Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. Percy Bysshe Shelley designer design religion Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. Percy Bysshe Shelley fierce struggle heaven The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning. Percy Bysshe Shelley lightning mind clouds I Fall upon the thorns of life. Percy Bysshe Shelley thorns fall Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Percy Bysshe Shelley command-not soul men Peace is in the grave. Percy Bysshe Shelley graves Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul. Percy Bysshe Shelley horse faith children Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion. Percy Bysshe Shelley community chance men Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. Percy Bysshe Shelley blind gold sake Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach. Percy Bysshe Shelley perfection Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. Percy Bysshe Shelley revenge idols age 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 love believe promise I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. Percy Bysshe Shelley daughter change mother Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull. Percy Bysshe Shelley stupid dull people Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. Percy Bysshe Shelley change yesterday men
