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?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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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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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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