Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWorse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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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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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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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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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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