A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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