It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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 what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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