Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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