| Quotes |
Topic |
| Absence | A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine, Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face. |
| Anger | One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. |
| Art | Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only. |
| Dreams | In dreams begins responsibility. |
| Education | Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. |
| Friendship | Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. |
| Heart Quotes | Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats. |
| Imagination | People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. |
| Language | Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. |
| Life | Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. |
| Love | Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye, That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. |
| Opinion | All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions. |
| Perfection | 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. |
| Poetry | Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric, of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. |
| Rhetoric | Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry. |
| Sacrifice | Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. |
| Study | I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead. |
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