Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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- Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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- Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.