Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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