This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI 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 pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Government 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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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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!
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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