Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEvery 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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