Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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 tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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