O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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