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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

William Butler Yeats

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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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 seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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