The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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Joy, once lost, is 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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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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