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Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

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Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

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GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.

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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

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Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

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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.

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Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect resembles more or less its original in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.

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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

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Can man be free if woman be a slave?

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Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

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(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

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I love all waste and solitary places.

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It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?

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