When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIn fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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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 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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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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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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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