Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
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And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were vacancy?
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There was no corn -- in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold They weighed it in small scales -- and many a face was fixed in eager horror then his gold the miser brought the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
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A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.
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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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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