The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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I 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.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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