All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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 innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Myself I must remake.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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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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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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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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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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