Tag: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The soul’s joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley