All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAll love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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