A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHeaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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