I love tranquil solitude.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude.
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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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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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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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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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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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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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