To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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