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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Art Fight Ourselves Poet Poetry
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Drink Man Sober Worst
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Beginning Dreams Responsibility
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Eyes Love Myself Romance See Wine Yourself
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Action Advice Hard Work Patience Wait
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.
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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Best Intense Passionate Worst
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
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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Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hate Intellectual One Liner Worst
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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Ecstasy Happiness Imperfection Live
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Difference Genius Talent Unity
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Nature One Liner World
If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Connection Myself Relatable Tree Yourself
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Appearance Beautiful Day Glow Season Wings
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Heart Rose Time
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
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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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Business Head Heart World
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Disappear Love Man
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Sex Soul Tragedy Virgin

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