Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley More Quotes From Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure. Percy Bysshe Shelley pain hate death Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery. Percy Bysshe Shelley dust power kings It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour Percy Bysshe Shelley mind animal long The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership. Percy Bysshe Shelley owing favors secret The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley heart men blood This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things. Percy Bysshe Shelley pain evil heaven Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves? Percy Bysshe Shelley eye self thinking Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Percy Bysshe Shelley sleep life death Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Percy Bysshe Shelley fantasy differences imagination The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God. Percy Bysshe Shelley inaccessible influence spirit The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. Percy Bysshe Shelley practice mind men Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley love romantic life Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Percy Bysshe Shelley wise names mind 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 wisdom wise men Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. Percy Bysshe Shelley brother war peace 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 sadness men reality I have drunken deep of joy. Percy Bysshe Shelley joy The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. Percy Bysshe Shelley variation humans mind We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being. Percy Bysshe Shelley imagination moving thinking It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire? Percy Bysshe Shelley mind dream love-is
