If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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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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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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