A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYBefore 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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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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