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

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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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. – John Keats

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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. – John Keats

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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

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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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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. – Blaise Pascal

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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. – Hesketh Pearson

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