All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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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There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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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 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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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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