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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen 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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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