I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWe 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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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