The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAre we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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