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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSRose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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