Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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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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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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