The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove’s very pain is sweet.
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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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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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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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