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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHistory is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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