I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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There 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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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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