Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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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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