• Feelings

  Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. T

  5.0 · 29 votes · 173 reads

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• Nature

  Health is my expected heaven.

  4.9 · 9 votes · 85 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

  4.9 · 7 votes · 31 reads

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• Time

  I always made an awkward bow.

  4.9 · 41 votes · 74 reads

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• Feelings

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

  4.5 · 42 votes · 49 reads

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• Defects

  I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

  5.0 · 26 votes · 152 reads

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• Government and Politics

  I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

  3.3 · 38 votes · 181 reads

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• Feelings

  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.

  5.0 · 30 votes · 69 reads

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• Various

  I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

  4.1 · 39 votes · 30 reads

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• Feelings

  I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  4.1 · 10 votes · 101 reads

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• Nature

  Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

  4.4 · 10 votes · 187 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

  4.5 · 43 votes · 154 reads

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• Virtues

  My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

  3.3 · 15 votes · 39 reads

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• Virtues

  Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

  3.6 · 11 votes · 151 reads

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• Nature

  O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

  4.7 · 33 votes · 129 reads

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• Various

  O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

  4.5 · 45 votes · 42 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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.

  4.5 · 27 votes · 89 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  3.9 · 8 votes · 56 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  4.4 · 19 votes · 76 reads

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• Various

  The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

  4.1 · 58 votes · 126 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  3.4 · 63 votes · 161 reads

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• Society

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

  4.0 · 35 votes · 16 reads

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• Society

  The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

  3.3 · 31 votes · 193 reads

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• Nature

  There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  4.6 · 28 votes · 146 reads

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• Feelings

  There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

  3.1 · 51 votes · 103 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

  3.4 · 37 votes · 171 reads

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• Nature

  When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

  4.5 · 64 votes · 191 reads

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• Society

  Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

  3.1 · 16 votes · 95 reads

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• Failure3 of their quotes
• Beauty2 of their quotes
• Death2 of their quotes
• Poetry2 of their quotes
• Literature2 of their quotes
• Proverbs1 of their quote