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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
War
"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."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
War
"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Religion
"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Nature
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Music
"Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Hope
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