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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAre we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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