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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI love tranquil solitude.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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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.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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