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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Rose 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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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