Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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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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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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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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