A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYOnly nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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