When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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