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Shelley Percy QUOTES

  • The soul's joy lies in doing.

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

  • 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.

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



  • A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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

  • The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

  • I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

  • We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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


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