The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty! Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them. Percy Bysshe Shelley summer dream sweet It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. Percy Bysshe Shelley vegetarianism compassion should-have There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. Percy Bysshe Shelley adoption vegetables water I wish no living thing to suffer pain. Percy Bysshe Shelley pain compassion life The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume. Percy Bysshe Shelley majestic-beauty shapes nature It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons. Percy Bysshe Shelley vegetables race power Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. Percy Bysshe Shelley dream sleep peace If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless Percy Bysshe Shelley family happiness love If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love. Percy Bysshe Shelley eye love children The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. Percy Bysshe Shelley stars sorrow night All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign. Percy Bysshe Shelley money heart love Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. Percy Bysshe Shelley friends ignorance real Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel. Percy Bysshe Shelley mountain voice wise Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one. Percy Bysshe Shelley music voice feelings ... a wild dissolving bliss Percy Bysshe Shelley romantic-love kissing eye It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen Percy Bysshe Shelley vegan medicine disease Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange Percy Bysshe Shelley tombstone change sea When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him. Percy Bysshe Shelley turns dies men I love tranquil solitude Percy Bysshe Shelley solitude wise love Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies. Percy Bysshe Shelley small-talk agony tea
