#great

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#aristocracy #bloated #cheap #china #despair

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. ↗

— John Keats

#fail #greatest #i #sooner #than

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

— John Keats

#decline #ever #great #land #sea

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ↗

— John Keats

#consideration #every #great #other #overcomes

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. ↗

— John Keats

#does #enters #great #into #itself

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

#change #great #great men #men #nations

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

#always #battle #better #chinese #classics

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time. ↗

— Stan Kenton

#fresh #great #hear #i #i think

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#fresh #great #heavens #hidden #human

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#fads #great #great things #opinion #popular