It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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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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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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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