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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Death Imagination Live Logic Reason
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
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Dreams Reality Visible World
Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Nature One Liner World
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Eyes Fall Hairs Heart Lonely Love Rest
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
In dreams begins responsibility.
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Beginning Dreams Inspirational One Liner Possible
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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Morning Myself Peace Sing Slow
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Beautiful Body Dreams End Man Soul Woman
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
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Beautiful Enemy Innocence Time
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
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

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