All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll 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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Myself I must remake.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Beloved, 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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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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 only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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