Quote by John Keats
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman

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. – John Keats

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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. – John Keats

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats

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

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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon ones self. – John Gay

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – Thomas Aquinas

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This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes

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