Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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