In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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