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01c. 1807 AD

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote

02c. 1807 AD

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote

03c. 1807 AD

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 / quote

04c. 1807 AD

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote

05c. 1807 AD

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 / quote

06c. 1807 AD

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote

07c. 1807 AD

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley / quote