There is another world, but it is in this one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAny 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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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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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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