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Them Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
- It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen
- Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice…
- The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love…
- A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one…
- I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things…
- Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
- Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life…
- What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth…
- There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their…
- You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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