Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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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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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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