All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Love’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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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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