"We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach……" — John Keats
"We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.""
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327 Quotes by John Keats
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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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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or,…
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
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Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the…
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On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text…
— Robert Bellarmine
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Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms…
— Noah Lukeman
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere…
— F. H. Bradley
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
— James Geary
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If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his…
— Milan Kundera
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
— Mason Cooley
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
— Paul Eldridge
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