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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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