William Butler Yeats
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“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” -William Butler Yeats
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“To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful.” -William Butler Yeats
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“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.” -William Butler Yeats
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“I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.” -William Butler Yeats
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“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.” -William Butler Yeats
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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” -William Butler Yeats
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“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.” -William Butler Yeats
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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.” -William Butler Yeats
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“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” -William Butler Yeats
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“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” -William Butler Yeats
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“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.” -William Butler Yeats
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“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” -William Butler Yeats
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“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.” -William Butler Yeats
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“One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.” -William Butler Yeats
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. – William Butler Yeats
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. – William Butler Yeats
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