The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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