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Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

John Keats
Knowledge, Conversation, Endeavor
John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.59

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

John Keats
Knowledge, Thinking, People
John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.96

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

John Keats
Flower, Knowledge, Eye
John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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