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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.

William Butler Yeats

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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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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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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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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Dreams Reality Visible World
Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Experience Literature Man Personal Ready Vision
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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