An intellectual hate is the worst.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Myself I must remake.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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