Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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Myself I must remake.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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 only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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