Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's Popular Quotes

I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley