Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

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• John Keats:

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

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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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• John Keats:

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• John Keats:

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