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And there shall be for thee all soft delight
That shadowy thought can win,
A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,
To let the warm Love in!

— John Keats Poems (1820)

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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

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Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making."

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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