Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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