People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
From William Butler Yeats
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
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