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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
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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O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
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Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.
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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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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
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At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?
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