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Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 July 8, 1822) was one of the major English romantic poets and is esteemed by some scholars the finest lyric poet in the English language. He is perhaps most widely famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy; but his major works were long visionary poems such as Adonais and Prometheus Unbound. Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism made him a notorious and much denigrated figure in his own life, but he became the idol of the following two or three generations of poets (including the major Victorian poets Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats.) He was also famous for his association with contemporaries John Keats and Lord Byron, and, like them, for his untimely death at a young age. He was married to the famous novelist Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your comments or consult wikipedia
"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Death and Dying
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"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
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"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Empire
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"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Familiarity
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"The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on The future
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"The soul's joy lies in doing."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Happiness
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"Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Hope
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Labor
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"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Leaders and Leadership
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"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Music
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"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Nature
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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Poetry and Poets
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"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Poetry and Poets
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"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Power
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"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Revenge
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"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Sorrow
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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Studying
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