The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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