only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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