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 KEATSLife is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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