"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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"I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?"
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"Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by"
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"All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart."
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"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
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"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."
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"From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye."
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"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."
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"When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey 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; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars."
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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 falcon cannot hear the falconer"
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"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
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"Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh."
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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 have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
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"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."
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"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
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"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone."
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"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
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