Random Quotes
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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love replused - but it returnethPercy B. Shelley
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - died 1 year later
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.Lord Byron, Don Juan