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Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Quote by Mary Shelley about opinion, virtue

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Quote by Mary Shelley about politics, good, good luck

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Quote by Mary Shelley about woman, wish, power, man

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Quote by Mary Shelley about rightness, charity, justice, world

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about poetry, solitude, poets

All Love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about love, common sense, voice, light

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about death, sleep, life

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about advice, past, fear, future

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about nature, spring

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about poetry

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.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about life

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about history, time, man

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about love, promise, absurd, woman