Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWords are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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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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I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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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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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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