William Butler Yeats Quotes, Life Quotes, Dark Quotes

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

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The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

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Life is an incurable disease.

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When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

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