Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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