The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYA single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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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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