John Keats

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• Quote 2746

  Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect
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• Quote 2745

  The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse
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• Quote 2744

  Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man
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• Quote 2743

  Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep
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• Quote 2742

  The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness
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• Quote 2741

  A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body
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• Quote 2740

  What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party
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• Quote 2739

  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, not a select party
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• Quote 2738

  I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence
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• Quote 2737

  Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer
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• Quote 2736

  I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise
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• Quote 2735

  Health is my expected heaven
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• Quote 2734

  Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
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• Quote 2733

  There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object
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• Quote 2732

  Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject
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• Quote 2731

  I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be
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• Quote 2730

  Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel
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• Quote 2729

  Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
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• Quote 2728

  I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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• Quote 2727

  The poetry of the earth is never dead
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• Quote 2726

  If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all
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• Quote 2725

  I wish to beleave in immortality, I wish to live with you forever.
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• Quote 2724

  My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk
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• Quote 2723

  The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility
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• Quote 2722

  The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children
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