Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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