Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Love’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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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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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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 pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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