It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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