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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.


— Percy Bysshe Shelley


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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


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Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience was apparently influenced by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action. Their son Timothy Shelley of Fen Place (born c. "


Death

On 8 July 1822 less than a month before his 30th birthday Shelley drowned in a sudden storm while sailing back from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in his schooner Don Juan.

Yeats Karl Marx Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Though Shelley's poetry and prose output remained steady throughout his life most publiPercy Bysshe Shelleyrs and journals declined to publish his work for fear of being arrested themselves for blasphemy or sedition.

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