Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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