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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYA single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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