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 SHELLEYMusic, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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