Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAll of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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