Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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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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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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