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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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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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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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