I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When 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.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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