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.
JOHN KEATSI am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
More John Keats Quotes
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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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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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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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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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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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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