I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYLove withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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I love tranquil solitude.
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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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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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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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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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