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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.

John Keats

I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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Day Myself World Writing
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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Existence Feeling Habit Leadership Myself Reality
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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Bright Grace Kiss Smile Sweet Yourself
There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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Future Night
I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Choice Despair Energy Myself
You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Break Company Death Hurt Love Myself Pain Togetherness Yourself
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Experience Illustration Life Reality Yourself
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.
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Bad Beginning Myself Old
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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Creation Dreams Life Suffering Wake Up
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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Kiss Live Love Misery Myself Soul Thankful
I want a brighter word than bright.
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Bright Myself Word
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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Intellectual Mindset Strength Thinking
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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Knowledge Mystery Need People Thinking
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Man Poet Power Talk
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Feeling Healing
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Failure Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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Dance Flower Myself Soul Steal
Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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Blessing Greatness Health Hope Live
Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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Bright Listening Moon Night Stars Talk Time
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Philosophy Poet Virtue
I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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Beautiful Love Principle
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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Leaving Rose Togetherness
Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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Cry Flower Sleep Tears Young
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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Freedom Happiness Heaven Lie Mindset Religion Shine Space
O aching time! O moments big as years!
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Big Hurt Moments Time
That which is creative must create itself.
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Creation Creativity Deep One Liner Wisdom
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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Discover Failure Leadership Seek Success True

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.

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