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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life, Pain, Compassion
1820 Prometheus Unbound, act 1, l.303-5.

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Compassion, Suffering, Deeds
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Compassion, Vegetarianism, Should Have
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls (bart.), Roger Ingpen (1934). “Verse and prose from the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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