O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAway, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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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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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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!
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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