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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

William Butler Yeats

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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Beginning Friendship Glory Man Myself Thinking
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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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
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.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself One Liner True
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Dreams Round Yourself
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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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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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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Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
Myself I must remake.
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Build Improvement Myself Transformation
Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Experience Literature Man Personal Ready Vision
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Best Intense Passionate Worst
There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hide Perspective World
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
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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Live Low Man Satisfaction Stay Suffering
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom

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