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

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Death
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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! – John Keats

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Oceans
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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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Nature
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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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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Recognition

Im shopping around for something to do that no one will like. – Jerry Garcia

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Recognition

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. – Yogi Berra

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