In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAll love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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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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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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