History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYMusic, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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