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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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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 young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Heaven’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.
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