"The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man."
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"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
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"There is no real wealth but the labour of man."
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"(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?"
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"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
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"The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other."
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"Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes."
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"Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing."
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"For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful."
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"Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!"
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"And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies."
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"He hath awakened from the dream of life."
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"Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose."
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"Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness."
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"... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss"
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"The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings."
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"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."
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"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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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend."
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