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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Beautiful Kind Love Myself Seek World
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Close Key Uncertain
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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Cry Explanation Teaching
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Myself Suffering Wisdom
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Death Life Preparation Spiritual
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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Beautiful Myself Old Water
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching

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