If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHistory is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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