All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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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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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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