We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
JOHN KEATSHear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
More John Keats Quotes
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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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.
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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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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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