Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Myself I must remake.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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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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