First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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