Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIn fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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