Quote #163
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
More from Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
- The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
- Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
- Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
- Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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