Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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