If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIt 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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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 warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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