There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAll of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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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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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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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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