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    W.B. Yeats
    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
    tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder
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    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    tags: humor, magic
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    Gail Carriger
    “He also grew a very large and scruffy beard, with which she was far less delighted.
    "A man's virility is in his beard," he insisted.
    To which Alexia replied, "And a woman's is in her décolletage. Yet you don't see me allowing mine to get out of control, now do you?"
    "If wishes were balloons," was his only response.”
    ― Gail Carriger, Timeless
    tags: alexia-tarabotti, gail-carriger, lord-maccon
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
    tags: attitude, inspirational
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: deception, lying
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Once in a golden hour
    I cast to earth a seed.
    Up there came a flower,
    The people said, a weed.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
    tags: criticism, judgement, poetry
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.”
    ― Tennyson
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”
    ― Lord Alfred Tennyson
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
    tags: enemies, friends, self-esteem
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
    For I would ride with you upon the wind,
    Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
    And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
    tags: dance, faeries, mountains, wind, world
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: irish, irish-writer, joy, tragedy, william-butler-yeats
    574 likes

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    W.B. Yeats
    “In dreams begin responsibilities.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, Responsibilities
    tags: dreams, responsibility
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
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    W.B. Yeats
    “I bring you with reverent hands
    The books of my numberless dreams.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
    tags: dreams, poetry
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    W.B. Yeats
    “To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: love
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    W.B. Yeats
    “I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: brown-penny, love
    90 likes

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    W.B. Yeats
    “My wretched dragon is perplexed.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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    William Shakespeare
    “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: insults, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: dramatist-quotes
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    William Shakespeare
    “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: birthday, happiness, laughter, shakespeare
    1990 likes



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