All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYNothing 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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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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