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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Age: 29 †
Born: 1792
Born: August 4
Died: 1822
Died: July 8
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Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
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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.
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That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.
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What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.
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It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
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He hath awakened from the dream of life.
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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
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