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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFirst 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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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