Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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!
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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