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George William Russell
George William Russell
Irish Writer
Born: Apr 10, 1867
Died: Jul 17, 1935
Great Hate Life Spiritual Will World
Related authors: Bram Stoker Colum McCann John McGahern Jonathan Swift Ken Bruen Marguerite Gardiner Sarah Rees Brennan
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
Love Great Soul Hate Power Magical Through Contemplate Likeness Exercise Love And Hate Transforming Grow
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. George William Russell
Work Soul Control Nothing Our Must Over Without Yield Hands Little Working
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
Tyranny Imagination Universe Virtue Our Worst Varied Roam Infinitely Uniformity
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. George William Russell
Life Will Sympathy Relation Relations Immortality Some Spirit Ideal Any Human Order Endure Which Social Them Landlord Social Order
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time. George William Russell
Time Great You Evoke Eat Spirits Same Same Time
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. George William Russell
Great Spiritually Always Been Victors Wars Conquered Defeated
The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain. George William Russell
World Men Free Own Draws Only Content His Themselves Each Fountain
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
Spiritual Fight Hate Defeat Our Ourselves Allow Wrong Likeness Insure May Against
The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet. George William Russell
World Wind Kingdom Shall Over Blow Blown Heaven Centuries
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
Character Will Country Down Think Destiny Entire Civilization Lay Proposition Policy Trade Denied Controls Which Taxation Whoever Fundamental
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest. George William Russell
Man Power Nothing Spirit Seems More Protest Makes Than Which
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. George William Russell
Life Work Wisdom Single Intricate Never Perfection Over House Dominion Cell Dwell Which Body
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. George William Russell
Art Spiritual Natural Must He Practise Fitted Person Interchangeable Realise Which Each Biological Necessity
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
Truth Character Heart Hate Result Enemies Hatred Own Secret Say Those Characteristics Enter Open Make Passionate Intensity Nations Door Interchange Conflicts Which Places Might Themselves Create Who Hence Imagine

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