All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt 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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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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