The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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