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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

William Butler Yeats

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Disappear Love Man
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hate Intellectual One Liner Worst
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 seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself One Liner True
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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Live Low Man Satisfaction Stay Suffering
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Death Life Preparation Spiritual
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
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
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
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
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
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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Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Art Fight Ourselves Poet Poetry
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Close Key Uncertain
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Change Face Love Man Soul 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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Battle Character Dreams Fight Fools Inspirational Life Lose Myself Need Night Party Soul Win
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Easy Home Invention Journalist Lying Man Stay Vote

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