When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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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 thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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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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