This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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