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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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Physician
Poet
Fire
Electric
Wonder
Heroic
Tending
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Nature
Findings
Pearl
Human
Finding
Rubbish
Humans
Creatures
Pearls
Must
Birth
Heroism
Among
Continually

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