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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’

William Butler Yeats

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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
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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Meaning Poetry Right Word
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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Easy Home Invention Journalist Lying Man Stay Vote
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Break Center Hold
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner

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