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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.

William Butler Yeats

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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
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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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
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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Cry Explanation Teaching
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Meaning Poetry Right Word
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
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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Heart Rose Time
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Company Friendship Rest Yourself
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
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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Growth Happiness Philosophy Simplicity Spiritual Virtue
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
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Action Advice Hard Work Patience Wait

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