The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen 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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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