There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish." — John Keats
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. — John Keats
About John Keats
John Keats was a Poet from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1795–1821).
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This quote is attributed to John Keats, a Poet from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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John Keats lived from 1795 – 1821.