I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSChoose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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