I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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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.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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The 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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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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