Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWar is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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