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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.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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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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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.

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

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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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley