I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYBefore man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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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 wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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