Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHistory is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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