Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHistory is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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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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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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