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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

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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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.
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The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.
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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
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He hath awakened from the dream of life.
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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
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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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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
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