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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | History and Historians Quotes

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Imagination Quotes

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poets and Poetry Quotes

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Self-Control Quotes

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Past Quotes

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Difficult Days Quotes

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Hope Quotes

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Creation Quotes

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Criticism Quotes

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.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Death Quotes

Jealousy's eyes are green.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jealousy Quotes

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Joy Quotes

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 are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Kiss Quotes

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Kiss Quotes

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lark Quotes

January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and rave, And April weeps—but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Months Quotes

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Moon Quotes

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Obscurity Quotes

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry Quotes

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Song Quotes

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Winter Quotes

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley | Work Quotes