The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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 man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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