And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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