Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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