When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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