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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.


John Keats

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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
JOHN KEATS What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fat...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
J.D. SALINGER Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?
ROBERT BROWNING There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
LORD BYRON Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
JOHN WEBSTER I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sa...
MICHAEL SIMS And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds. - John Keats,
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JOE NAMATH They will let the consumer lead, and they will follow them to where, and importantly, when, they lea...
GARY STIBEL John Wayne played a leader; a hero who you would follow, ... He was somebody who would do what he co...
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JANE CAMPION Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
ANONYMOUS To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who d...
JOE NAMATH He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
HOWARD THURMAN A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur...
CAROLYN KIZER We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generat...
THOM GUNN Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
JOHN KEATS Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not f...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not f...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high li...
JOHN KEATS He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]
LOUIS XI To lead is not to follow.
TYLER J. HEBERT Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because ...
RICK SANTELLI A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., D...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE Lead others to lead - not follow
STEVE RUSH He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.
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JANE CAMPION If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. La...
SHELBY FOOTE While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES Don't blindly follow any leader.
MARGUERITE YOUNG Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
UNKNOWN You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
ROBERT HUNTER The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than t...
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TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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HOWARD DEAN He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
PROVERB He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear
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GARY WATERS He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
UNKNOWN Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand w...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand w...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the iss...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL I asked God to lead me to right while I follow. I had no idea that he would lead me to right through...
SUSIE L HILL When dancing with life, let God lead and just follow.
JIM GENOVESE Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expec...
PIETRO METASTASIO I think these younger guys see Tony, what he accomplished, and know as a freshman he took his lumps,...
SCOTT SHAW Hmph. Yes. Him. He had the nerve to turn down our offer of immortality and tell us to pay better att...
RICK RIORDAN He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.
JOSéPHIN PéLADAN He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He who fears to suffer,
Suffers from fear..
SARAH ALDERSON It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
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MARK CAMARIGG Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall p...
EDGAR LEE MASTERS Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall p...
EDGAR LEE MASTERS He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
ABU BAKR He is miserable once who feels it, but twice who fears it before it comes.
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ANUJ SOMANY Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
RICHARD L. EVANS He who fears death has already lost the life he covets
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JONI MITCHELL My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is lite...
RACHEL ZOE Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal...
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JEAN SHINODA BOLEN Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He who fears something gives it power over him.
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I gently open the cover. Inside, written in pencil,...
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ESTELLE He who can follow his own will is a king
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JOHN KEATS O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not ...
JOHN KEATS A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring wi...
JOHN KEATS Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.
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JOHN KEATS I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is th...
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JOHN KEATS Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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JOHN KEATS It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy cita...
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JOHN KEATS Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
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Our ready minds to fellowship divine,
A fellow...
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JOHN KEATS Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.
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and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
T...
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JOHN KEATS The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks.
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JOHN KEATS Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
JOHN KEATS Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice ...
JOHN KEATS Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, C...
JOHN KEATS Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Or bed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, g...
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JOHN KEATS How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
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JOHN KEATS He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci."
JOHN KEATS On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
JOHN KEATS There is a budding morrow in midnight.
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JOHN KEATS The latest dream I ever dreamed / On the cold hill side.
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JOHN KEATS Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
JOHN KEATS Virgin-choir to make delicious moan / Upon the midnight hours.
JOHN KEATS Oh what can ail thee, wretched wight, / Alone and palely loitering; / The sedge is withered from the...
JOHN KEATS Soon, up aloft, / The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
JOHN KEATS O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
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JOHN KEATS Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.
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JOHN KEATS My chest of books divide amongst my friends--
JOHN KEATS Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?
JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
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JOHN KEATS Bright Star

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone s...
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JOHN KEATS No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures
Than I began to think of rhymes and measures:
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JOHN KEATS My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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for their religion--
I have shuddered at...
JOHN KEATS Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye.
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JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases;
It will never
Pass into...
JOHN KEATS If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all
JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness
JOHN KEATS Leaving great verse unto a little clan.
JOHN KEATS Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer...
JOHN KEATS Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, s...
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JOHN KEATS Their smiles, / Wan as primroses gathered at midnight / By chilly-fingered Spring.
JOHN KEATS Where's the cheek that doth not fade, / Too much gazed at?
JOHN KEATS The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;/ And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
JOHN KEATS I stood tip-toe upon a little hill.
JOHN KEATS Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
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JOHN KEATS Where's the face / One would meet in every place? / Where's the voice, however soft, / One would hea...
JOHN KEATS I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs.
JOHN KEATS Pass into nothingness.
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JOHN KEATS On a half-reapèd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares t...
JOHN KEATS Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
JOHN KEATS I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa...
JOHN KEATS Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
JOHN KEATS Hard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
JOHN KEATS Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.
JOHN KEATS Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high...
JOHN KEATS And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four.
JOHN KEATS The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ...
JOHN KEATS O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
JOHN KEATS When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
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JOHN KEATS Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
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JOHN KEATS Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.
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JOHN KEATS St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare lim...
JOHN KEATS Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numb...
JOHN KEATS I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
JOHN KEATS Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I...
JOHN KEATS Fairy Song
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep n...
JOHN KEATS But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the...
JOHN KEATS