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!
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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