A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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