Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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