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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

William Butler Yeats

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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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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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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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