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.
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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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Dust 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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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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