The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLife 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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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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