The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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