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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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Action Equality Freedom Habit Man Object Selfish True Wisdom

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