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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAre we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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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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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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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