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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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