This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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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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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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