Joy, once lost, is pain.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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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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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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