Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIt is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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 power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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