Quotes by George William Russell - Page 1

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
George William Russell / Writer
Earth
Found
Heaven
Seek
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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
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Betrayed
Boyhood
Childhood
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Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
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Procession
Throat
Whiskey
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Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
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Beauty
Saint Patrick's Day
Drunk
Never
Were
Could
Our
Eyes
Hearts
See
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You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
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Evoke
Same Time
Spirits
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You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
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Time
Plums
Spirit
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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Hell
Lying
Pain
Thinking
Ah
Between
Lies
Thin
Veil
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The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.
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Defeated
Victor's
Conquered
Wars
Spiritually
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There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
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Human Nature
Law
Morality
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A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
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Hate
People
Towns
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Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
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Dark
Night
Twilight
Fast
Followed
Hunter
Timid
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The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
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Blow
Heaven
Wind
Centuries
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The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.
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Draws
Fountain
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Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
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Mountain
Sides
Trying
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No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.
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Leader
People
Personality
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We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
George William Russell / Writer
Imagination
Tyranny
Uniformity
Virtue
Worst
Infinitely
Roam
Varied
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We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
George William Russell / Writer
Heart
Laughter
Tired
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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.
George William Russell / Writer
Defeat
Fighting
Hate
Spiritual
Allow
Insure
Likeness
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We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
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Yield
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
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Dominion
Intricate
Life Wisdom Work
Cell
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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.
George William Russell / Writer
Sympathy
Endure
Immortality
Social Order
Relations
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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.
George William Russell / Writer
Life
Communication
Sympathy
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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 / Writer
Easier
Forgive Me
Forgiving
Joy
Sorrow
Tears
Thee
Understood
Forgive
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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.
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Great
Exercise
Hate
Love And Hate
Soul
Transforming
Grow
Love Power Great
Through
Contemplate
Likeness
Magical
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It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.
George William Russell / Writer
Passion
Prove
Replica
Fools
Myriad
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We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.
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Practise
Biological
Fitted
Interchangeable
Realise
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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.
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Childhood
Hero
Sorrow
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The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but 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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Sympathy
Endure
Immortality
Landlord
Order
Relation
Social
Social Order
Ideal
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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.
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Dream
Fate
Fire
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I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization.
George William Russell / Writer
Civilization
Denied
Taxation
Controls
Fundamental
Lay
Proposition
Whoever
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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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Ireland
Nationality
Neighbor
Persist
Spiritual
Material
Mightiest
Powers
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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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Spiritual
Unconquerable Will
World
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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.
George William Russell / Writer
Running
Men
Harmony
Movement
Rivals
Steam
Wheels
Revolutions
Life Business Man
Began
Run
Engine
Round
Habits
Per
Intended
Minute
Pump
Rival
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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.
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Men
Country
Stupid
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By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.
George William Russell / Writer
Characteristics
Hate
Hatred
Imagine
Intensity
Nations
Passionate
Secret
Conflicts
Door
Enemies
Enter
Hence
Places
Result
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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.
George William Russell / Writer
Men
Blow
Wind
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