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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Dreams Feet Myself Poor
Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Nature One Liner World
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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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