I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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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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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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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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I love tranquil solitude.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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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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