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.
Joy, once lost, is pain
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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?
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.
A dream has power to poison sleep.
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.
Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.
Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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