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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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