When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLife and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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