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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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 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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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