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 KEATSIf 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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