There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
JOHN KEATSPleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
More John Keats Quotes
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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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The air is all softness.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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