Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him? - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English romantic poets, widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language; husband of Mary Shelley.
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Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
It has been the persuasion of an immense majority of human beings in all ages and nations that we continue to live after death,—that apparent termination of all the functions of sensitive and intellectual existence. Nor has mankind been contented with supposing that species of existence which some philosophers have asserted; namely, the resolution of the component parts of the mechanism of a living being into its elements, and the impossibility of the minutest particle of these sustaining the smallest diminution. They have clung to the idea that sensibility and thought, which they have distinguished from the objects of it, under the several names of spirit and matter, is, in its own nature, less susceptible of division and decay, and that, when the body is resolved into its elements, the principle which animated it will remain perpetual and unchanged.
Friendship, a dear balm... A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight.
