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 SHELLEYFirst 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.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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