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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.

William Butler Yeats

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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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