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William Butler Yeats Quotes
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moments thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
An intellectual hatred is the worst. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
And say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
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 Quotes
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
How can we know the dancer from the dance? - William Butler Yeats Quotes
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
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 Quotes
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
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