Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYAre we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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 pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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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.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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