Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHonour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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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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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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