We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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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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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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