Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHonour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
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All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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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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The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset’s fire.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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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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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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