If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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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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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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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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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 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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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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If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless.
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The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.
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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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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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