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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats
Life, Depression, Wisdom
John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.824, Delphi Classics

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats
Depression, Philosophy, Angel
'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

John Keats
Sad, Depression, Water
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 25 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 287

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