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" There is no real wealth but the labor of man. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man
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" Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. "
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" I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. "
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" Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. "
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" Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. "
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" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "
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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 one may be happy in the interim. "
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" Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. "
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" The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. "
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" History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. "
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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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" If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? "
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" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "
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" A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "
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" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "
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" Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. "
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