The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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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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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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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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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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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 young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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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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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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