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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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Game Law Trade War
Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Blood Hands Hard Heart Worst
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Goodness Love Myself Quiet Solitude Tranquility Wisdom
The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Black Heart Loud Note
Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Honor One Liner Smile Truth
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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Autumn Harmony See Sky Summer Thinking
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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Feeling Light Moon Music Oneself Reveal Sing Voice World
In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Communication Fact Fear Truth
Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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Bright Heaven Herself Love Moon Sleep Stars World
The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Door Forever Jealous Key Truth
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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Evil Goodness Government Man Necessary Thinking Vice Willing
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Command Man Obey Soul Virtue
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Build Music Oneself Togetherness
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Deep Discover Ignorance Ourselves Study Wisdom
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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Change Death Fly Hope Life Return Truth

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