War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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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 pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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