All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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