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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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