This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI 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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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