When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSee 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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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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 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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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