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.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWords are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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 great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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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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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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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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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 my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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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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Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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