A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHonour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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