Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLife 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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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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