Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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 exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Hammer your thoughts into 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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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