Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley I love Love - though he has wings, Percy Bysshe Shelley homelifeart And bid them love each other and be blest: Percy Bysshe Shelley love-each-otherguestslife The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is. Percy Bysshe Shelley religiouswarmean The flood of time is rolling on; Percy Bysshe Shelley rollinggonetime A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts. Percy Bysshe Shelley poetrymirrorsbeautiful What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Percy Bysshe Shelley garlicyoungthinking My father Time is weak and gray Percy Bysshe Shelley timefatherhands Music, when soft voices die, Percy Bysshe Shelley musicsweetmemories In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. Percy Bysshe Shelley atheismatheistfacts There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone. Percy Bysshe Shelley patrioticeyewind And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Percy Bysshe Shelley glowingflowerair Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies. Percy Bysshe Shelley passioneyeatheist Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful. Percy Bysshe Shelley strengthimaginationadd Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. Percy Bysshe Shelley forgivenessdustblood A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man. Percy Bysshe Shelley atheistmenreligion Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Percy Bysshe Shelley claycoldhope Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. Percy Bysshe Shelley lightairfood Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley inspirationwritingmoving I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. Percy Bysshe Shelley moralpoliticalpoetry O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life Percy Bysshe Shelley dreamsleepdeath
