Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThere 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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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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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 have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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