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  • You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

    Time   Plums   Spirit  
    "Across My Path" by Pelham Edgar, (p. 148), 1952.
  • Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

    George William Russell (1926). “Collected poems”
  • 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.

    "The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government". Book by George William Russell, 1921.
  • We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

    Laughter   Heart   Tired  
    George William Russell, “Natural Magic”
  • A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

    Hate   People   Towns  
  • Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

    Twilight   Dark   Night  
    George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”
  • People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

    Country   Stupid   Men  
    George William Russell (1913). “Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation”
  • 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.

    Running   Men   Rivals  
    "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.
  • In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

    'Germinal' (1931)
  • Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

  • No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

    George William Russell (1937). “The Living Torch, A. E.”
  • Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

    Pain   Lying   Thinking  
    George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”
  • A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

    Blow   Men   Wind  
    George William Russell (1920). “The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government”
  • Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

    Trying   Mountain   Sides  
  • We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.

    Dream   Fate   Fire  
    George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”
  • 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.

    "The Living Torch, A.E". Book by Monk Gibbon, 1937.
  • 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.

    "Open letter to the Masters of Dublin". The Irish Times, October 7, 1913.
  • In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

    Hero   Childhood   Sorrow  
    'Germinal' (1931)
  • Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

    Heaven   Earth   Found  
    "The Unpractised Heart" by Leonard Alfred George Strong, (p. 147), 1942.
  • There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

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