Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI 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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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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