Percy Bysshe Shelley Quote Explained: For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

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

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· England

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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless Explain

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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· England

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A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet

· England

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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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· England

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To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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· England

Hope
Wrecks

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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· England

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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet

· England

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Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind. Explain

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet

· England

Human
Wisdom

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man’s face. I now Say what I think.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man’s face. I now Say what I think.

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

If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless Explain

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

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

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind. Explain

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Explain

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Explain

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man’s face. I now Say what I think.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man’s face. I now Say what I think.

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