I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHistory is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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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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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 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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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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 drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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