Irish - Writer | April 10, 1867 - July 17, 1935
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.
George William Russell
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Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
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Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
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The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
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You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
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We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
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After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
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