O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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