I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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