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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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