We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
From George William Russell
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
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