History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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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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