History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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