Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
JOHN KEATSEverything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
More John Keats Quotes
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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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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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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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.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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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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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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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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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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