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GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.
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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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I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh - Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Hell is a city much like London - A populous and smoky city.
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Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
To know nor faith, nor love, nor law, to be Omnipotent but friendless, is to reign.
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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Thou art Justice - ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England - thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
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Are ye, two vultures sick for battle, Two scorpions under one wet stone, Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched on the murrained cattle, Two vipers tangled into one.
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The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.
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I never thought before my death to see Youth's vision thus made perfect.
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Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes.
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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Last came Anarchy: he rode On a white horse, splashed with blood; He was pale even to the lips, Like Death in the Apocalypse.
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Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
The lone couch of his everlasting sleep.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Twilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day, Night followed, clad with stars.
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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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With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
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By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system.
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The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley