Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIf God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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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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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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