An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
JOHN KEATSTis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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