When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWhen a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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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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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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