“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that...”
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“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that...”
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“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
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“Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.”
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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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“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”
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“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
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“I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
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“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
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“All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.”
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“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
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“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
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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 of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his...”
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“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
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“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”
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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
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“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”
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“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
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“Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.”
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