Joy, once lost, is pain.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe 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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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