Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton
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How will thy soul, cloven to its depth with terror,Gape like a hell within!
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Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart
And come, for some uncertain moments lent.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Earth groans beneath religion's iron age, And priests dare babble of a God of peace Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The secret Strength of things
Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
Of Heaven is as a law, inhabits thee!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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