Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYA 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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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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