#great

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

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#city #commendation #eminent #father #great

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#does #easily #emotion #give #great

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#begins #finishes #genius #great #labor