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/ page 59 of 1205 /I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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A woman can be proud and stiff when on love intent; but love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement; for nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it.
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A shudder in the loins engenders there the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead.
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world,And God, the herdsman goads them on behind,And I am broken by their passing feet.
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