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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

William Butler Yeats

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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Company Friendship Rest Yourself
I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Break Course Hard Heart Love
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Beautiful Enemy Innocence Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Nature One Liner World
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Appearance Beautiful Day Glow Season Wings
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Cry Explanation Teaching
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Beginning Friendship Glory Man Myself Thinking
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself

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