Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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