Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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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.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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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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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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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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