Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThere 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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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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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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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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 love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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