When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThere is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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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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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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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 love tranquil solitude.
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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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