Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
JOHN KEATSPhilosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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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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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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