I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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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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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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