"Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth……" — John Keats
"Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer."
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327 Quotes by John Keats
John Keats has 327 quotes on this site.
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
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Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I…
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A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
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Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I…
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek…
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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More Ardour Quotes
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of…
— Sun Tzu
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old…
— Ann Radcliffe
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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of…
— Unknown Author
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Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with…
— Peter Forsyth
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by…
— Samuel Johnson
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The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the…
— Joseph Conrad
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The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.
— Henry Beston
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The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap…
— Samuel Johnson
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