The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThere Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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