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.
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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.
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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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And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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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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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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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