I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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