War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSoul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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