Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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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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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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