A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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 young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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