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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

William Butler Yeats

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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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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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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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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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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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