1. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - “I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.”

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2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

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3. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - “From my birth I have aspired like the eagle — but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed.... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.”

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4. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

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5. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”

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6. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.”

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7. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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8. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.”

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9. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.”

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10. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call Life.”

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11. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Death is the veil which those who live, call life: They sleep, and it is lifted.”

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12. 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.”

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13. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.”

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14. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Hell is a city much like London - A populous and a smoky city.”

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15. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Oh, cease! Must hate and death return? Cease! Must men kill and die? Cease! Drain not to its dregs the urn of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!”

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16. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”

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17. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”

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18. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.”

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19. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.”

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20. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Poets are the unacknowledged legislatures of the world.”

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21. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.”

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22. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.”

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23. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”

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24. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. ...... They who inspire it most are fortunate, As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still.”

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25. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”

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