It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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