Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
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The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
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Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
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History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.
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Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
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Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love replused - but it returneth
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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
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A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.