All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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