All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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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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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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