This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYJoy, once lost, is pain.
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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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 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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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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