One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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