I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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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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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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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.
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