Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.
In dreams begins responsibility.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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.
Love comes in at the eye.
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.
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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.
The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.
All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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