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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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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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Love’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 have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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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 drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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