Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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