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.
JOHN KEATSEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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The air is all softness.
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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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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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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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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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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, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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