When 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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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 have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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