Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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