I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYStrange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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?
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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