Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Away, 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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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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