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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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