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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

William Butler Yeats

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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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Business Head Heart World
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Close Key Uncertain
The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Dreams Reality Visible World
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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Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
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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Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Believe Memories Myself Nature
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Difference Genius Talent Unity
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Meaning Poetry Right Word
Myself I must remake.
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Build Improvement Myself Transformation
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul

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