The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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 winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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