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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.

William Butler Yeats

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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness

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