Best Quotes by William Butler Yeats (Top 10)
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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!
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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.
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More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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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.
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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.
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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.
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Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
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