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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.

William Butler Yeats

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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