Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIt is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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