The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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