It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFamiliar acts are beautiful through love.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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.
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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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