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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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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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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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