Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIf God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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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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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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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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