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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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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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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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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