Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYA single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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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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