Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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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 have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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 psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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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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