It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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