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.
JOHN KEATSAnd when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
More John Keats Quotes
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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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