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 SHELLEYThis lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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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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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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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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