Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThere is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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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.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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