Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLife is a long preparation for something that never happens.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Myself I must remake.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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