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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.

William Butler Yeats

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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Dreams Feet Myself Poor
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Break Course Hard Heart Love

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