It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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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.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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