Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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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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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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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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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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