Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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There 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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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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