When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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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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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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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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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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