Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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