Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
There is another world, but it is in this one.
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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.
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Everything in nature is resurrection.
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
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