The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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