This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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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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