Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes about Gold

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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gold, Sake, Blind

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, Understanding, Gold

1821 'Epipsychidion', l.160-1.