Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
JOHN KEATSThe 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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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 I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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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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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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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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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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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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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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