It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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