God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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