If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIf what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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