When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYNothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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