In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBeloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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