Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHeaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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 howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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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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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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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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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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