War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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