Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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