“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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