Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThen black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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There 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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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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.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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