Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYMan who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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