A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen 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.
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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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