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

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. – John Keats

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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Popularity? Its glorys small change. – Victor Hugo

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Vengeance has no foresight. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Its at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. – Emil Zatopek

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Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. – Mary McLeod Bethune

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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. – Winston Churchill

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