This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWords are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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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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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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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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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.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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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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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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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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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
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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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War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
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