But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSPeople who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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