When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIf a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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