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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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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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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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