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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Company Friendship Rest Yourself
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Meaning Poetry Right Word
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
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.
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Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Art Fight Ourselves Poet Poetry
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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Live Low Man Satisfaction Stay Suffering
An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hate Intellectual One Liner Worst
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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Ecstasy Happiness Imperfection Live
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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Cry Explanation Teaching
It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself One Liner True
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Myself Suffering Wisdom
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Angel Dance Flame Mountain Ride World Yourself
I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Believe Memories Myself Nature

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