Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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