See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYMan 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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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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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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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