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 KEATS
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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I have so much of you in my heart.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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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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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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