Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
JOHN KEATSLand and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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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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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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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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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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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