Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe 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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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