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 KEATSEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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The air is all softness.
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