Quote by John Keats
I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish

I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. – John Keats

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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. – 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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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. – Lord Mansfield

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Whatever is popular deserves attention. – James Mackintosh

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We have peace with Israel. Were actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, Why are we having this relationship when its not benefiting anybody? Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace. – King Abdullah II

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