Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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