Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne 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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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Myself I must remake.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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