I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYTo hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
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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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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
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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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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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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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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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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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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
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