Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call Life.
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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...Percy Bysshe Shelley
Be it not said, thought, understood --
Then it will be -- good night.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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He was a gentle boy
And in all gentle sorts took joy.
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Thy settled fate,
Dark as it is, all change would aggravate.
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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want worse need for them. The wise want love and those who love want wisdom And all best things are thus confused to ill.
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