I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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