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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWorse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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