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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

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 love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.
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(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
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The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.
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Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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