It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFamiliar acts are beautiful through love.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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