Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAre we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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