Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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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 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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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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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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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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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