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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSing 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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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 love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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