Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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 taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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