Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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