Joy Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

19 Joy quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Shelley’s verses pulse with the restless energy of a Romantic soul, celebrating joy as a fierce, liberating force that defies restraint.

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I have drunken deep of joy.

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The soul's joy lies in doing.

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Joy, once lost, is pain

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For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

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

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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory.

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“You must come home with and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do all that is…

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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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In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy…

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“Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread,…

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Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet…

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I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by…

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“We rest; A dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; One wandering thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason;…

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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…

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Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a…

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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To…

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“Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night…

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“The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight?…

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“Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And…

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The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

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The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

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Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

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“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless…

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A dream has power to poison sleep.

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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed !”

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“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

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Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?…

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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The…

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The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own…

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Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

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Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill;…

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