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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come.
Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.
...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.
A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.
As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange
Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.