Love’s very pain is sweet.
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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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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