Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
More Quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley:
I sang of the dancing stars,I sang of the dedal earth,
And of heaven, and the Giant wars,
And love, and death, and birth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whither have fled
The hues of heaven that canopied his bower
Of yesternight?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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