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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Imagination
"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Imagination
"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
History
"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."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Government
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Good
"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Food
"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Death
"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."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Change
"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Beauty
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Beauty
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