It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSJoy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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