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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.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Cat #Thinking #Care
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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.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Sight #Preparation #Juice
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“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Memories #Men #History
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“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Spring #Winter #Air
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“Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#New Relationship #Essence #Liberty
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“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Ignorance #Study
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“It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Atheist #Creating #Limits
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“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Love #Life #Beautiful
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“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Sleep #Numbers #Slumber
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“I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Dream #Sexy #Sweet
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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
#Pain #Men #Imagine
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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.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Creative #Deities #Spirit
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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
#Summer #Fall #Autumn
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“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Kings #Names #Despair
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Positive #Fear #Moving Forward
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“Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Law #World #Why Not
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“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Music #Memories #Voice
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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Beautiful #Mirrors #Poetry
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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Song #Musical #Sorrow
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“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Sweet #Cheer #Creativity
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“I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Wine #Joy #Taste
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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.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Dust #Debt #Firsts
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“The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Inspiration #Greatness #Wind
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“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Delight
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“For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Compassion #Suffering #Deeds
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“If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Wise #Prayer #Doubt
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“I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Rain #Rivers #Water
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“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Lightning #Poetry Is
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“All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Poetry #Firsts #Acorns
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“There is no real wealth but the labor of man.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Real #Men #Wealth
