Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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