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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

William Butler Yeats

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Close Key Uncertain
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
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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Beautiful Kind Love Myself Seek World
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Sex Soul Tragedy Virgin
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
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

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