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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAll of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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