There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEcstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Myself I must remake.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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