There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify

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 (1820). The Complete Works of John Keats, p.37
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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 (1820). The Complete Works of John Keats, p.37

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