Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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 pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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