Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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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 great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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