Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOur sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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