"We are tired who follow after fantasy and……" — George William Russell
"We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes."
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George William Russell
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29 Quotes by George William Russell
George William Russell has 29 quotes on this site.
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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business…
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We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual…
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After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality.... The spirit…
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You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
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Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
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Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in…
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People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were…
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
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There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
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A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom…
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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