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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

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

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

- 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

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

- 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

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