When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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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.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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