Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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