This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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