Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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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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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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