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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSJoy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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 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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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