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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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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
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Death Life Preparation Spiritual
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Myself Suffering Wisdom
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Appearance Beautiful Day Glow Season Wings
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Build Inspirational Reality Unity Yourself
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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