Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYA poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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