Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLove 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.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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