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While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.


Kevin Shelley

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unre...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the c...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, b...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY