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No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
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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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
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So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.
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Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge never a check.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
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The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
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Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
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That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
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Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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