Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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