“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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