I love tranquil solitude.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYNothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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