Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIn fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I love tranquil solitude.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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