Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen 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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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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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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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