Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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See 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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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I 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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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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