The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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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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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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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
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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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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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