Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYO, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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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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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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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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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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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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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