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O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb
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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Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer no one comfort would be added to the human race.
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What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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Till the Future dares Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!
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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
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A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
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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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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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A dream has power to poison sleep.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.
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Among true and real friends, all is common and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
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I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.
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The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.
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