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„Избыток зла порождает добро.“

„Любовь - это выход за пределы своего "я" и слияние с тем прекрасным, что заключено в другом человеке.“

„Журавль, ища гнезда, через моря стремится;
Нет птицы, чтоб она летела из гнезда,
Когда скитаньем утомится;“

„Чтобы быть истинно добрым, человек должен обладать живым воображением, он должен уметь представить себя на месте другого. Воображение - лучшее орудие нравственного совершенствования.“

„Ничто в мире не одиноко;
Все в нем, следуя высшему закону,
Сливается в едином духе.“

„Крови, пролитой поклонниками Бога милосердия и мира со времени введения Его религии, хватило бы, быть может, для того, чтобы утопить приверженцев всех других сект, живущих на земном шаре.“

„Самая губительная ошибка, которая когда-либо была сделана в мире, - это отделение политической науки от нравственной.“

„Любовью тюльпан и горчанка зажглись;
И дивный красавец, влюблённый нарцисс,
Расцвёл над ручьём и глядит на себя,
Пока не умрёт, бесконечно любя;“

„Любовь чахнет под принуждением; самая её сущность — свобода; она несовместима с повиновением, с ревностью или страхом; она там наиболее чиста, совершенна и безгранична, где её приверженцы живут в доверии, в равенстве и отсутствии условности.“

„Безумная явилась тут,
Надеждою ее зовут.
Но, как Отчаянье, она
Вскричала, вся дрожа, бледна: «Отец мой, Время, стар и сед,
Ждет лучших дней, а их все нет,
Глядите, он, как идиот,
Руками шарит, счастья ждет».“

„Зачем покинул ты привычный путь людской
Так скоро, слабою рукой, но храбрым сердцем
Голодного дракона растревожив в его норе?
Ты беззащитен был, но где ж тогда скрывалась
Та мудрость, что всегда — зеркальный щит?..“

„Души встречаются на губах влюбленных.“

„Никогда так не нужна поэзия, как в те времена, когда вследствие господства себялюбия и расчета количество материальных благ растет быстрее, чем способность освоить их согласно закону души.“

„Мой лучший брат, мой светлый гений“

„Так в лесу росистом
В час ночной — светляк
Блеском золотистым
Рассекает мрак,
Невидимый горит цветов и трав маяк.“

„Привычные поступки становятся прекрасными благодаря любви.“

„Что было — смерти, будущее — мне.“

„Поэзия - памятник, в котором запечатлены лучшие и счастливейшие мгновения самых лучших и счастливейших умов.“

“And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”

“Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.”

“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.”

“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”

“I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.”

“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”

“Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!”

“As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.”

“When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.”

“I Fall upon the thorns of life….”

“The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.”

“Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights
The fairest feelings of the opening heart,
Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil
Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love,
And judgment cease to wage unnatural war
With passion's unsubduable array.”

“His fine wit
Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.”

“True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding, that grows bright,
Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
Imagination! which from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human phantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning.”

“Sun-girt City, thou hast been
Ocean's child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey.”

“Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.”

“Be your strong and simple words
Keen to wound as sharpened swords,
And wide as targes let them be,
With their shade to cover ye.”

“The old laws of England — they
Whose reverend heads with age are gray,
Children of a wiser day;
And whose solemn voice must be
Thine own echo — Liberty!”

“Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?”

“No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.”

“Are ye, two vultures sick for battle,
Two scorpions under one wet stone,
Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle,
Two crows perched on the murrained cattle,
Two vipers tangled into one.”

“The lone couch of his everlasting sleep.”

“Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry.”

“How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!”

“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”

“Me — who am as a nerve o'er which do creep
The else unfelt oppressions of this earth,
And was to thee the flame upon thy hearth,
When all beside was cold: — that thou on me
Shouldst rain these plagues of blistering agony!”

“The quick Dreams,
The passion-winged Ministers of thought.”

“The natural philosopher, in addition to the sensations common to all men inspired by the event of death, believes that he sees with more certainty that it is attended with the annihilation of sentiment and thought. He observes the mental powers increase and fade with those of the body, and even accommodate themselves to the most transitory changes of our physical nature. Sleep suspends many of the faculties of the vital and intellectual principle; drunkenness and disease will either temporarily or permanently derange them. Madness or idiotcy may utterly extinguish the most excellent and delicate of those powers. In old age the mind gradually withers; and as it grew and was strengthened with the body, so does it together with the body sink into decrepitude. Assuredly these are convincing evidences that so soon as the organs of the body are subjected to the laws of inanimate matter, sensation, and perception, and apprehension are at an end.”

“A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift —
A Love in desolation masked; — a Power
Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift
The weight of the superincumbent hour;
It is a dying lamp, a falling shower,
A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak
Is it not broken? On the withering flower
The killing sun smiles brightly: on a cheek
The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break.”