People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSYet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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