A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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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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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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