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O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
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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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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No more let life divide what death can join together.
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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.
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