I love tranquil solitude.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYGovernment 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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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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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