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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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