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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley 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.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley 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.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley
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