I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYA 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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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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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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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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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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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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