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 KEATSA thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
More John Keats Quotes
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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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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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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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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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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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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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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