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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.

Mary Wollstonecraft 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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

'Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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