When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWe 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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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