Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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