Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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All 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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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