I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIn fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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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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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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