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The crane o'er seas and forests seeks her home; No bird so wild but has its quiet nest, When it no more would roam;.. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. View quote
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The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen. View quote
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He hath awakened from the dream of life- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings. View quote
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Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind. View quote
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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes. View quote
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I met Murder on the way - He had a mask like Castlereagh. View quote
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Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! View quote
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She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain. View quote
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And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest. View quote
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By solemn vision and bright silver dream His infancy was nurtured. Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient air Sent to his heart its choicest impulses. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. View quote
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A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day. View quote
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. View quote
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What is Freedom? View quote
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. View quote
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. View quote
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We rest. - A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. - One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:It is the same! - For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. View quote
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. View quote
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Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day. View quote
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Strange thoughts beget strange deeds. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light, The night is good; because, my love, They never say good-night. View quote
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The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom. View quote
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I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good: - Between thee and me What diff'rence? View quote
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant. View quote
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