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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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Cry Fear Future Past
I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The 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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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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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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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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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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