Quote by John Keats
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so t

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. – John Keats

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats

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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. – John Keats

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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. – John Keats

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Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne

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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

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