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Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
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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My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
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I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.
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The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.
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To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.
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