When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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