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.
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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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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Heaven’s ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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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 young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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