1792-1822, British Poet
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Imagination]
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Studying]
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Wealth]
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Sorrow]
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Happiness]
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Forgiveness]
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Autumn]
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Labor]
There was no corn — in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales — and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Famine]
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Mountains]
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Leaders and Leadership]
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [Tragedies]
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley – [War]
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