Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYNothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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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 warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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