First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYDust 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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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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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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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