I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYO, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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