It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
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The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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I would give
All that I am to be as thou now art!
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Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed,
Murmur'd like a noontide bee,
'Shall I nestle near thy side?
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The world is weary of the past--
O might it die or rest at last!
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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