Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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