Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWar is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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