It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoetry 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 young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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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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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 love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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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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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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