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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Imagination
Reason
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
Care
Cats
Thinking
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul
Joy
Lies
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age
Revenge
Worship
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul
Lovers
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Imagination
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul
Man
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance
Study
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pleasure
Sorrow
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
Autumn
Harmony
Sky
Summer
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wealth
Labor
Man
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pain
Pleasure
Shadow
Tragedy
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Religion
Selfishness
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
War
Delight
Jest
Trade
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing