It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAll love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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