All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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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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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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