Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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