Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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 make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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