Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI 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.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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