I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYMan who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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