The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe 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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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