The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYRise 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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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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